Thomas Sailer wrote:
>
> Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
>
> > Ugh, before anyone starts, please don't bring the binary vs machine
> > parsable ASCII war onto linux-usb. Leave it on linux-kernel please.
>
> WTF are you smoking?
hehe.
He doesn't live in the netherlands, so i don't think that is going to result
in a shocking answer :-)
> I didn't start an ASCII vs. Binary flame war
> nor was it my intention. And accusing people who have different opinions
> than yours of wanting to start a flame war is a bit cheap, eh?
a bit touchy ?
> We had that discussion some time ago. Machine parsing devices wasn't
> even my idea, I think it was Greg Kroah's. I was even quite sceptic
> in the beginning.
>
> But the format devices currently has is to make it machine parsable
> quite easily, do you really think it would look like it does now
> if it wasn't meant to be machine parsable?
Which does not mean it's desirable.
I read two different answers from two different people: Not Good.
IIRC there was some sort of race condition with the devices file, something to
do with the descriptors ?
If this is solved, I see no objection against using it in a program, otherwise
I would say, don't touch it...
J.
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