<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>You can find some information about it here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://bird.network.cz/?get_doc&v=20&f=prog-2.html#ss2.10">https://bird.network.cz/?get_doc&v=20&f=prog-2.html#ss2.10</a></div><div><br></div><div>I think (IMHO) the reason why it is not implemented as "length+text" is because for that you need to prepare the whole response in some buffer first to calculate its size. In the current approach you can put the things out without the intermediate buffer.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Alexander<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 11:17 PM LIU Chris via Bird-users <<a href="mailto:bird-users@network.cz">bird-users@network.cz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-3982865114942331748">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:netravnen%2Bbirdlist@gmail.com" target="_blank">netravnen+birdlist@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:netravnen%2Bbirdlist@gmail.com" target="_blank">netravnen+birdlist@gmail.com</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 18, 2023 2:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> LIU Chris <<a href="mailto:chris-zq.liu@urbanandmainlines.com" target="_blank">chris-zq.liu@urbanandmainlines.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:bird-users@network.cz" target="_blank">bird-users@network.cz</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: bird control socket response<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">I want to implement an application to talk to bird daemon, basically like birdc/birdcl.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(63,127,95)">0001 BIRD 2.0.10 ready.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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