[zeromq-dev] [PATCH] LABEL flag added to the wire format

[Martin Sustrik]

On 06/20/2011 01:16 PM, Pieter Hintjens wrote:

> Uhm... no. If you want people to take part in the thought process,
> document your work in progress. No-one else is responsible for that.

Ok. So what happened is that I've added a LABEL flag to tell apart 
message parts that are used by 0MQ to drive its business logic (such as 
backtrace stack in request/reply pattern) and those containing user data.

The rationale is that having a special flag for this kind of thing, any 
layer in the stack can tell the user data from 0MQ-specific data without 
having to parse the actual content of the message parts.

For example, introduction of this flag allows to get rid of "backtrace 
stack delimiter" (the empty message part in any req/rep message).

Another example: Imagine wireshark to be able to display user data in a 
separate box from 0MQ-specific data.The same applies for any deep packet 
inspection tool.

Martin