From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 13:09:35 -0400
From: presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com
Subject: [9fans] IL question?
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It wouldn't take much to throw out any il data
that appears after > 256k of il bytes are in the
process end queue (or pick your favorite limit).
You'll still have to process the packets or the
protocol will break but nothing forces you to keep
the processed data lying around.

As long as you use the protocol for reply/request, nothing
is changed.  If you try to use it as a streaming pipe, it'll
lose info but won't eat up all of memory.