viraptor was talking about C programs having to parse human-readble strings from /proc in Linux to get machine-readable data. That the output of the `ps` comma

viraptor was talking about C programs having to parse human-readble strings from /proc in Linux to get machine-readable data. That the output of the `ps` command is only human-readable is a complete red herring. That's not what a C program would use, and not the C API that viraptor was talking about.