xml-rpc?

[Colin Alston]

On 2007/10/22 08:54 AM martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Thomas Hood <jdthood at gmail.com> [2007.10.19.1741 +0200]:
>> Upstart will maintain its own socket (probably with the same
>> name), the only difference is when you connect to it, you talk
>> D-BUS rather than talking a custom IPC protocol.
> 
> xml-rpc isn't really custom, but I suppose this is something
> I should look into. Or anyone else, if you find the time. Thanks,
> Thomas.

XML is difficult for scripted chatter, like if people want to write to 
the socket via shell scripts and such then a simple text protocol 
(such as that used by l2tpd) can be handy, although more work.