Hi, > Anyway, you're correct, and that's why modularity (which needs a > better interchange format than UNIX's stream of bytes, to be honest)
This is pretty irrelevant to the original email, but in terms of IPC protocols, what would you suggest instead? I've been writing a small application with dbus recently, and I've been pretty happy with dbus as a protocol. It looks to be very good at solving some of the problems that plain text can't, and its interfaces seem like not at all a bad a choice for complex (that is, non purely textual) interaction. I imagine, however, that its OO-ness and relative size make it somewhat unpopular among the 'minimal-at-any-cost' subset of the suckless community. Does anyone have any specific protocol recommendations, and thoughts on dbus (or RPC in general) as a method for complex IPC? thanks! -- lincoln auster [they/them]
