>With a simple "strace" I can now reasonably trace my programs, which a binary serialization will never allow you
Doesn't systemd use binary logging?
Doesn't systemd use binary logging?
(Yes, we then store the structure log data on disk in a binary format. Lookup indexes are just nasty in text based formats).
Hence, not sure what the Journal has to do with Varlink, but any IPC that the journal does is text-based, and very nicely strace'able in fact, I do that all the time.
[Maybe, when trying to be a smartass, try to be "smart", and not just an "ass"?]
Although I use strace all the time, I hardly ever look at the payload of read and write calls, although I could see why it would be useful. But given a binary protocol it wouldn't be terribly hard to build a tool that parses the output of strace.
> [Maybe, when trying to be a smartass, try to be "smart", and not just an "ass"?]
thanks for the kind words and elevating the tone of the discussion.
Nah, it'd be a rage-inducing nightmare.