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Re: unsigned long jiffies

To: "Ralf Baechle" <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "John Hawkes" <hawkes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: unsigned long jiffies
From: "John Hawkes" <hawkes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 15:42:49 -0700
Cc: "linux-origin" <linux-origin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
References: <059901bfc43b$866bf5c0$1d70eea9@seattle.sgi.com> <20000523003706.B6425@uni-koblenz.de>
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> About which proc-file are we talking?  In general you should probably
> just design the file's format such that it can be parsed
unambiguously;
> generally there ASCII files are somewhat preffered.

/proc/lockmeter

I'm reluctant to use an ASCII formatting, since the heavy-duty data
transfers involve hundreds, if not thousands, of data values.  The first
problem I stumbled over was in a general information header.  The Big
Data arrays are more clearly typed as 32-bit data.

John


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