Re: [Syslog] RE: byte-counting vs special character

[Carson Gaspar]

Escaping precludes no-configuration backwards compatibility, as no legacy 
syslog-over-tcp code does escaping. So if you want to interoperate with 
existing code, you must have a "don't escape or expect escapes" switch in 
your code. If you're going to do that, just have a "LF mode vs byte-count 
mode" switch. This whole backwards compat argument is bogus, iff we decide 
to escape embedded LF instead of forbidding it. And I have yet to see 
anyone argue for LF on any grounds except backwards compatibility.

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Carson
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