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From: "Jörg Thalheim" <joerg@higgsboson.tk>
To: wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com
Subject: Re: Text-based IPC for Userspace Implementations
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 20:26:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1500fe21-c423-b34d-adf5-463b5d483cbf@higgsboson.tk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <358B5193-8D9F-472F-8202-B81BAA022FDD@titanous.com>

On 2017-05-16 17:01, Jonathan Rudenberg wrote:
>> On May 16, 2017, at 09:12, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> wrote:
>>
>> So why not avoid any possible confusion and just emit JSON? Or another
>> well-established serialisation format where the nesting can be made
>> explicit... :)
> +1 to this, requiring implementors to also implement a custom serialization format will lead to avoidable bugs.
>
> I took a quick look and there is a bit of precedent for the use of JSON in the kernel tree: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/3401e8d1e1300742ed41910b9338b9da52689a16/tools/perf/pmu-events
>
> Jonathan

For the kernel, netlink will be used, which is already does its own serialization format. The use of JSON here, would not make sense here.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-16 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-16 12:36 Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-05-16 13:12 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2017-05-16 16:01   ` Jonathan Rudenberg
2017-05-16 16:09     ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2017-05-16 19:26     ` Jörg Thalheim [this message]
2017-05-17 14:01       ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-05-17 14:04         ` Manuel Schölling
2017-05-17 14:08           ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-05-18 16:46             ` Manuel Schölling
2017-05-18 18:04               ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-05-17 14:14         ` Bzzzz
2017-05-17 14:17           ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-05-16 16:33   ` Guanhao Yin
2017-05-17 13:53     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-05-16 15:43 ` Ivan Labáth
2017-05-17 14:00 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-05-17 18:07   ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2017-05-17 18:10     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-05-17 17:04 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
     [not found] ` <20170516154204.GB9458@matrix-dream.net>
     [not found]   ` <CAHmME9roTAqMYB0qB7JG3rkKfGw1nfzTz0AD-frcGyyweCTcJQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-05-18  8:02     ` allowed_ips move semantics? Ivan Labáth
2017-05-18 10:08       ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-05-18 12:00         ` Ivan Labáth

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