[PATCH] adding custom options in radv protocol, strict ipv6 regex

[Alexander Zubkov]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 3:04 PM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:

> Alexander Zubkov via Bird-users <bird-users at network.cz> writes:
>
> > Hello, Maria!
> >
> > You suggestion for blob syntax seems good to me. I think I can try to
> > prepare patches for that. Only one concern is that it could break some
> > current configuration files, if they have functions with such names.
> Maybe
> > it is better to use some other "brackets" to make it less possible to hit
> > something? hex<deadbeef> or hex[deadbeef] maybe? Or even something exotic
> > like hex|deadbeef| ?
>
> How about just using the standard 0x prefix?
>

It is already taken for integers. :)


>
> I.e.:
>
> 0xfc00deadbeefcafe -> 8-byte byte string
> fc00:dead:beef:cafe -> IPv6 address
>
> -Toke
>
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