On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 02:12:45PM -0700, Philip Pokorny wrote: > bash can handle bit operations just fine. > > bash$ echo $(( 7 & 2 )) > 2 > bash$ echo $(( 8 & 2 )) > 0 Heh, you can tell I am not a good bash programmer :) > So that shouldn't be a concern. Ok, nevermind. > I'd like to make another suggestion. Put meaningful text strings as the > contents of the _status file: > > LOW (for low alarm) > HIGH (for high alarm) > FAIL (for diode failure) > ALARM (for generic alarm) > HIGH, FAIL (for multiple alarms) > "" (null string for no alarm) > > Then the sensors library and other tools/languages can just "cat" the > contents to get the status and test for non-null string to see if there > is an active alarm or not. Ah, I like this even better. We would never need to display more than one status at a time per device, right? thanks, greg k-h
