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From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: /proc standards (was dot-proc interface [was: /proc
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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 19:47:58 -0500 (EST)
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Alex Bligh - linux writes:

>    sure it's easier to strip out a spurious 'kb' that
>    gets added after a number, than to deal with (say)
>    an extra inserted DWORD with no version traching.

Design the kernel to make doing this difficult.
Define some offsets as follows:

#define FOO_PID 0
#define FOO_PPID 1

Now, how is anyone going to create "an extra inserted DWORD"
between those? They'd need to renumber FOO_PPID and any other
values that come after it.

The "DWORD" idea is messed up too BTW. Use __u64 everywhere.