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Subject: Re: Text-based IPC for Userspace Implementations
From: Jonathan Rudenberg <jonathan@titanous.com>
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> On May 16, 2017, at 09:12, Toke H=C3=B8iland-J=C3=B8rgensen =
<toke@toke.dk> wrote:
>=20
> 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/3401e8d1e1300742ed41910b9338b9da526=
89a16/tools/perf/pmu-events

Jonathan