From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] About 9P ...
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:30:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070623043028.A0A7C1E8C51@holo.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <467C4C48.6050009@free.fr>
> So unless Russ is right and that the
> fact FIDS are choosen by the client has
> been decided arbitrarily ... I still have
> no answer to my question.
In the current version of 9P, there is no reason
why the client has to choose the fids (file ids).
You don't have to believe me, but it's true.
The client must choose the tags (request ids)
since it sends the first request message without
any input from the server. The tags are what
enable having multiple messages outstanding.
There is an historical reason why fids are
chosen by the client, but like most historical
reasons, it no longer applies. In very early
versions of 9P (before the first edition release),
there were no tags. Replies were matched
based on fid and type, so fids had to be chosen
by the client, just as tags do now.
Tags were introduced on November 21, 1990:
http://swtch.com/go/fid2tag
Russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-23 4:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-19 20:11 Philippe Anel
2007-06-20 0:37 ` Russ Cox
2007-06-20 2:06 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2007-06-20 11:29 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-06-22 0:32 ` Derek Fawcus
2007-06-22 6:58 ` Philippe Anel
2007-06-22 15:57 ` Derek Fawcus
2007-06-22 20:32 ` Philippe Anel
2007-06-22 21:10 ` David Leimbach
2007-06-22 21:35 ` Philippe Anel
2007-06-22 21:46 ` David Leimbach
2007-06-22 21:55 ` Philippe Anel
2007-06-22 22:25 ` Philippe Anel
2007-06-22 22:57 ` David Leimbach
2007-06-22 23:01 ` Anant Narayanan
2007-06-23 4:30 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2007-06-23 5:10 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-06-23 9:25 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-06-23 15:50 ` Martin Atkins
2007-06-23 6:24 ` Philippe Anel
2007-06-23 15:00 ` Rob Pike
2007-06-24 0:52 ` [9fans] 9P optimization Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-06-24 3:04 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-06-24 3:15 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-06-24 4:08 ` ron minnich
2007-06-24 9:34 ` Steve Simon
2007-06-24 10:06 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-06-24 11:38 ` Steve Simon
2007-06-24 13:34 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-06-25 0:34 ` ron minnich
2007-06-25 17:53 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-06-25 1:02 ` Dave Eckhardt
2007-06-24 12:14 ` erik quanstrom
2007-06-24 13:36 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-06-24 21:47 ` erik quanstrom
2007-06-25 17:48 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-06-25 18:46 ` erik quanstrom
2007-06-24 4:16 ` Bruce Ellis
2007-06-24 18:05 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-06-22 23:20 ` [9fans] About 9P Skip Tavakkolian
2007-06-22 23:48 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-06-23 0:27 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2007-06-23 0:27 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-06-23 12:08 ` erik quanstrom
2007-06-23 12:27 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-06-23 12:57 ` Lucio De Re
2007-06-23 13:01 ` Uriel
2007-06-23 13:36 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-06-23 14:27 ` Lucio De Re
2007-06-23 14:45 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-06-22 21:16 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-06-22 21:37 ` Philippe Anel
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