24 Mar
2017
24 Mar
'17
11:17 a.m.
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017, at 22:33, Andrew Warkentin wrote:
While I agree 100% that all resources, including
things like PCI
devices, should be exposed through special files, I still think
there's a place for commands like lspci, as long as they're
implemented as shell scripts that format information from the special
files.
I posted my earlier post before seeing this one - I do have to wonder,
why exactly do shell scripts (or interpreted languages generally, if it
could be an awk script or a perl script) have a special place in this
philosophy?