C - (stdio) - (net) = what an ideal programming library looks like. IO ring FTW. Eventually, you realize that you're trying to use line buffers / getc / ungetc to parse lines on that packet of data on the iio_ring to serve that cat picture for teh Internetz. :) We need to eliminate variable length protocols to make these interfaces go away.
It's turtles all the way down
- Wondermark: http://wondermark.com/357/
- XKCD: https://xkcd.com/676/