Re: file metadata via fs API

On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 8:51 PM Linus Torvalds
[off-list ref] wrote:

I think people who have problems parsing plain ASCII text are just
wrong. It's not that expensive. The thing that makes /proc/mounts
expensive is not the individual lines - it's that there are a lot of
them.

I agree completely with the above.

So why mix a binary structure into it?  Would it not make more sense
to make it text only?

I.e. NAME=VALUE pairs separated by newlines and quoting non-printable chars.

Thanks,
Miklos