Re: [gpsd-users] gpsd WATCH_RAW

[Eric S. Raymond]

Roger Oberholtzer <address@hidden>:
> Why would gps_data() return some JSON headers at the start?

So your client program can see them and parse them - in order, for
example, to know if the major version of the protocol has been bumped,
so it can warn the user that it might not be able to parse the rest of
the output properly.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>