From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: [9fans] authentication protocol question From: presotto@closedmind.org To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20011101190106.6A9D8199DD@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:01:05 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 11b5cfe6-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 The race is on the client side. There can be a number of simultaneous attaches through the same communications channel. Nothing synchronizes them so the authentications can come out of order. The important part is that the id's aren't reused.