From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:35:28 GMT." References: From: Bakul Shah Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:01:37 -0800 Message-Id: <20110221000137.E278B5B58@mail.bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] streams Topicbox-Message-UUID: b28ea026-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:35:28 GMT Charles Forsyth wrote: > i think it might be helpful to have a transport protocol along the lines > of Bryan Ford's SST, which allows a stream to create substreams > with separate flow control and other attributes. a primary 9p stream > might create a substream for a large Tread or Twrite. > the facility could be emulated for existing protocols, although addressing > puzzles make that trickier that one might like. the demo SST implementation > was built on UDP. a service to resolve addressing puzzles might be useful too > . Thanks. Read the paper but need to think about it more.... Seems quite interesting. The idea of using substreams for large xfers is clever! A stream analogue of worker threads. Not sure what addressing puzzle you are talking about.