Re: [patch] proc.5: tell how to parse /proc/*/stat correctly

[Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen () sdaoden eu>]

Jeffrey Walton wrote in
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 |Using \0 as the delimiter would still require encoding of \0 when it
 |is present in the data.

But it is already used in some files like /proc/self/environ. 
'Just thinking, it would be the (here optional) .nul suffix that
is new.  (It of course cannot happen in the C-style strings of
which all this is about.  For serialization of true non-humanized
binary data "as-is", yes.  I surely would go CBOR then.  Though
the libcbor that i track is a huge beast, it surely can be much
smaller than that.)

--steffen
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