[interfacekit] Re: BMessage format

> we just had a discussion about which way to go for kernel BMessages -
>  
> as you may know, the R5 kernel sends our BMessages directly to 
> applications for node monitoring and live query messages.
> The best alternative idea to avoid code duplication was a special new 
> BMessage format, i.e. 'FOB0': the kernel would know how to write 
> them, 
> the BMessage class would know how to read them. We might even want to 
> put some helper parse classes in libroot.so, in a way that the C API 
> could also use them (i.e. for kernel modules).
> 
> Have you written any documentation/specs about BMessages yet=3F All I 
> found is a very basic field description (in docs/develop/app/
> bmessage.txt).
> Depending on the message format, I could consider dropping the 
> special 
> FOB0 format.
> 
> Anyway, what are your thoughts about the FOB0 idea in general=3F

If it is really more compact, then I'm all for it.

CU, Ingo

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