Re: MIME-ifying sysctl types

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:39:34PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
My proposal is to MIME-ify the Format fields, best presented in examples:

"S,proc" -> "x-struct/proc"
"S,xfile" -> "x-struct/xfile"

The format field is intended for the interpretation of userland programs
like sysctl. For those fields, the human user is barely able to find
meaning in the fields -- so this doesn't really help much but changing
the kernel ABI. Which should be considered A Bad Thing (TM).

Joerg
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