"Brown, Len" <[email protected]> writes:
> good for shell scripts, not clear it is better for C programs
> that have to open a bunch of files by name.
Moreover, it means that the factual data is only made available as a
nice textual string, that then has to be parsed by shell scripts and
other programs to get the factual data again.
So I feel much for /dev/xxx approach, together with the already
mentioned small utilities like 'batstat' for shell scripts.
-- Johan
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