[ltp] Re: Generic battery interface

[Johan Vromans]

"Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> writes:

> good for shell scripts, not clear it is better for C programs
> that have to open a bunch of files by name.

Moreover, it means that the factual data is only made available as a
nice textual string, that then has to be parsed by shell scripts and
other programs to get the factual data again.

So I feel much for /dev/xxx approach, together with the already
mentioned small utilities like 'batstat' for shell scripts.

-- Johan