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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt index d2a6b268cd..ecedb34bba 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt @@ -36,10 +36,10 @@ More specifically, they: . They cannot have ASCII control characters (i.e. bytes whose values are lower than \040, or \177 `DEL`), space, tilde `~`, - caret `{caret}`, colon `:`, question-mark `?`, asterisk `*`, + caret `^`, colon `:`, question-mark `?`, asterisk `*`, or open bracket `[` anywhere. -. They cannot end with a slash `/` nor a dot `.`. +. They cannot end with a slash `/` or a dot `.`. . They cannot end with the sequence `.lock`. @@ -62,7 +62,10 @@ A pkt-line MAY contain binary data, so implementors MUST ensure pkt-line parsing/formatting routines are 8-bit clean. A non-binary line SHOULD BE terminated by an LF, which if present -MUST be included in the total length. +MUST be included in the total length. Receivers MUST treat pkt-lines +with non-binary data the same whether or not they contain the trailing +LF (stripping the LF if present, and not complaining when it is +missing). The maximum length of a pkt-line's data component is 65516 bytes. Implementations MUST NOT send pkt-line whose length exceeds 65520 |