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Nils Andreas Svee 56a2a653d0 docs(crates): give each published crate its own crates.io README and examples
Each published crate (irtt-rs, irtt-client, irtt-server, irtt-stats,
irtt-proto) now points crates.io at its own README instead of
inheriting the root project README via the workspace-wide readme
default, which is removed. Each crate README is a short landing page:
what the crate is, who should use it, which sibling crate to use
instead if this isn't the right abstraction level, and links to
docs.rs and the main repository.

Add real Cargo example targets teaching irtt-client's blocking/Tokio/
managed API tiers, a basic and a multi-listener irtt-server example,
and an irtt-stats example contrasting finite vs continuous retention.
irtt-proto intentionally has none. Update each crate's top-level
rustdoc to explain its API-tier choices and point at the examples, and
enable docs.rs rustdoc example scraping for irtt-client and
irtt-server (via doc-scrape-examples on each example target, needed
because the crate has dev-dependencies).

The client examples are caller-paced against next_send_deadline()
rather than sending on every loop iteration, bound their receive wait
by the next send/timeout deadline instead of awaiting indefinitely,
poll timeouts on a short fixed cadence, and surface send/receive/close
errors instead of discarding them via unwrap_or_default()/if-let-Ok --
so they demonstrate correct pacing and terminate/report cleanly rather
than racing the server, hanging on a lost reply, or silently dropping a
failed final close.
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irtt-proto

Low-level wire encoding and decoding for the IRTT-compatible protocol: request and reply structs, flags, negotiable parameters, varint/zigzag primitives, and HMAC-MD5 packet authentication. No sockets, no runtime, no session state.

Who should use this

Most applications should not depend on this crate directly. Use irtt-client to run client sessions or irtt-server to run a server; both build on irtt-proto and provide session lifecycle, negotiation, and validated configuration on top of it.

Reach for irtt-proto directly only if you are implementing another IRTT-compatible client or server from scratch and need the raw packet layer.

Field values mirror the wire format closely rather than expressing policy: Params::decode rejects malformed input, but direct construction plus Params::encode performs no additional validation — callers are responsible for validating values before sending them.

Documentation

Full API documentation is on docs.rs/irtt-proto.

Project

Part of irtt-rs, an independent Rust implementation of an IRTT-compatible protocol stack.