From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Letters reserved for future use
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 04:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051117041258.GD3513@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8f2776cb0511150109p67555d41w4e88b6c459da2ae7@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 01:09:34AM -0800, Jim Blandy wrote:
> On 11/14/05, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> > A reserved "long command" prefix that isn't in the query namespace
> > might help aesthetically, but would offer no technical value.
>
> Isn't that what 'v' is allegedly for?
Oh yeah, forgot about that. We could document the vendor prefix for
'v' too.
> The whole thing about using organizational names in packet formats, as
> recommended for the query packets, seems a bit like overengineering.
> If we're responsive, it should be enough for people to simply post
> here saying that they've defined a 'u' packet that does thus-and-so.
> Even if we don't like the packet, we can at least act as an ad-hoc
> "assigned numbers authority" and note that it's been used somewhere.
Except then they have to synchronize with us about their uber-sekrit
ports. I think the vendor prefixes are a good idea.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-17 4:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-15 1:06 Jim Blandy
2005-11-15 4:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-15 4:36 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-15 9:09 ` Jim Blandy
2005-11-17 4:13 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
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