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The system level fix is to create a structured record format. That could mean quoting all the records or maybe Linux should finally adopt a standardized format

The system level fix is to create a structured record format. That could mean quoting all the records or maybe Linux should finally adopt a standardized format like JSON.

zokier 4y ago
Strictly speaking it is structured; the structure is described in the man page and it is machine-parseable
- jwilk 4y ago
  It's not described correctly. The man page says you can parse it with scanf(), which is wrong.