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in thread poorly documented behaviour of readline() and IO::Select

Yes. I've always favoured length prefixes to delimiters in protocols I've written--mostly RS-232, RS-432 and some short range wireless hand-held devices (think barcode scanners in supermarkets but 15+years ago).

But that doesn't really fit with the *nix, everything-is-a-file way of working.

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