Re: null termination of keys

[Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@wasabisystems.com>]

On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Julian Satran wrote:

> Bob,
>
> The reason it was put in is to to enable "parsing" without the C bit.
> With key spanning PDUs before having the C bit the sender had to avoid
> sending a 0 if this was the last byte of the PDU as he had no other means
> of signaling continuation. A 0 at the end of a PDU meant end-of-LTDS.
>
> Now that we have the C bit we can live with or without having a 0 at the
> end of the last PDU.
> Let's hear some more voices.

As a C/C++ programmer, I really like the idea of having 0s at the end of a
key/value pair.

I agree with Bob that having key/value pairs terminated by NULs is easier.

Take care,

Bill