On Aug 3, 2007, at 6:47, David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:32:20PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
Please have the length of strings upfront.
Length encoding isn't self-syncing,
Better that than not being able to easily pass arbitrary data, which
might include NULLs.
As parameters to programs that are going to use them in UNIX system
calls?
If you want to redesign UNIX from scratch, be my guest... beware the
second system syndrome (as someone already mentioned).
I'm just trying to eliminate the hateful xargs.
