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 "Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:29:49 EDT." References: <86iojlmin5.fsf@cmarib.ramside> <20141015170124.74DE5B827@mail.bitblocks.com> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 12:03:23 -0700 From: Bakul Shah Message-Id: <20141015190323.8864CB82A@mail.bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] server push in 9P protocol Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1d603ff2-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:29:49 EDT erik quanstrom wrote: > > A server can return responses in any order since each request > > has a client defined unique tag associated with it. Don't see > > why the same connection can't be used both sides to act as a > > server for the other.... Though this assumption may be > > implicit in code. > > mnt driver only only keeps one outstanding per client, so > this point is moot without changes to the mnt driver. Indeed. My point was that for "server push", you don't have to extend the protocol, only implementations :-)