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From: Demi Marie Obenour <demi@invisiblethingslab.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: oss-security@lists.openwall.com,
	Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [oss-security] [patch] proc.5: tell how to parse /proc/*/stat correctly
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 19:33:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y6zgcTndt4Ss6/6/@itl-email> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y6y/0uzFlTpkw/VT@mit.edu>

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On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 05:14:42PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 01:02:35PM -0500, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
> > > I think the argument I'm trying to make is to be flexible in
> > > implementation, allowing for future needs and wants--that is "future
> > > proofing".
> > 
> > Linux should not have an XML, JSON, or YAML serializer.  Linux already
> > does way too much; let’s not add one more thing to the list.
> 
> There's always Protobufs[1]!  :-)  And all of these are better than
> ASN.1, for which Google already has a limited parser (for x.509
> certificates).   :-)   :-)   :-)
> 
> 						- Ted

Cap’n Proto is better than Protobufs :-)
-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
Invisible Things Lab

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-29  0:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-22 16:42 [patch] proc.5: tell how to parse /proc/*/stat correctly Alexey Dobriyan
2022-12-22 22:03 ` [oss-security] " Dominique Martinet
2022-12-22 23:21   ` Solar Designer
2022-12-23  0:15     ` Dominique Martinet
2022-12-23  0:21   ` Jan Engelhardt
2022-12-28  0:44   ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2022-12-28  1:50     ` Tavis Ormandy
2022-12-30 20:15       ` Jakub Wilk
2022-12-28 15:24     ` Shawn Webb
2022-12-28 15:31       ` Shawn Webb
2022-12-28 16:47       ` Demi Marie Obenour
2022-12-28 17:09         ` Jan Engelhardt
2022-12-28 17:25         ` Shawn Webb
2022-12-28 18:02           ` Demi Marie Obenour
2022-12-28 18:36             ` John Helmert III
2022-12-28 19:24             ` Shawn Webb
2022-12-28 19:57               ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-12-28 22:14             ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-12-29  0:33               ` Demi Marie Obenour [this message]
2022-12-31 16:31       ` David Laight
2022-12-31 17:27         ` Solar Designer

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