bird control socket response

[LIU Chris]

Classified as: {OPEN}

I want to implement an application to talk to bird daemon, basically like birdc/birdcl.
The control socket is TCP stream, it is fine. But the response from bird daemon adds some headers for each line
I understand server want to make a boundary/delimiter for stream. Just wondering why not just add how many bytes in the beginning of response, instead of this inconvenient way (have to decode line by line). I am not question bird implementation, just wondering :)

Current format like below

Show protocols
0001 BIRD 2.0.10 ready.
2002-Name       Proto      Table      State  Since         Info
1002-device1    Device     ---        up
 static_bgp     Static     master4    up
 kernel1        Kernel     master4    up
0000



With Best Regards,
Chris LIU


{OPEN}

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