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		skissane on May 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: macOS Internals Seriously I wish /proc was available as a tree of JSON documents as opposed to all these different ad hoc plain text formats. It would make using /proc a lot easier and more reliable

jwandborg on May 8, 2023 [–]

Could be unnecessarily costly unless the files are written ahead-of-time. I propose some kind of GraphQL-like interface to only read what you need.

skissane on May 8, 2023 | [–]

/proc files are generated on-demand as you read them.

Generating JSON couldn’t be significantly more costly than the current ad hoc plain text formats are

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