Re: [9fans] A simple experiment

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:40 AM, roger peppe <rogpeppe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

what happens if the consumer is slow and the Rstream writer
blocks? how do you stop all the other replies on the connection
waiting for the consumer to get on with it?

there are not replies -- the rstream is a reply. If the consumer is
slow packets are lost. That's life.



in fact, how do you stop it deadlocking if the consumer is in
fact waiting for one of those replies?

??

One Tstream. Lots of Rstreams. Zero interaction.

i suppose this comes down to what the API looks like.
isochronous might be easier, as a slow reader is a bad reader
so you could just throw away some data.

Yes.

ron

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