Re: [MiNT] expanded /proc vs new /kern

["Konrad M. Kokoszkiewicz" <draco@obta.uw.edu.pl>]

Hi,

> > Nope, not even. A proper tool checks if the name matches the scheme
> > `.%03d'. Anything else I would render "improper tool" :-) The part of the
> > proc filename before a dot is documented as something that does not
> > matter, and if something is named /proc/aessys.* you cannot guess that it
> > actually _is_ the AES, because it can be anything.
> 
> Sure, in theory.
> But in reality there are probably programs that rely on the fact that
> names in /proc will never exceed 12 bytes (plus terminating null).  One of
> these programs is the MiNT kernel by the way.

Yeah, task managers of various sort and provenience for example. But MiNT?
In what part (except the procfs), because I can't remember at the moment.
 
Gtx,

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