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From: rog@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Channel casting
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 19:50:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2ca3dd7d4095c2b41138ab023a0a56e8@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ECBC538.5090608@ameritech.net>

> What I was mainly worried about was timing.
> If one thread sends a request, but, another
> thread preempts that first thread's call to
> recv, wont the second thread receive the
> server thread's response?

there's no problem if the server is single threaded and only serves
one request at a time.

the problem you speak of can only happen if two threads are both
trying to recv at the same time, but that can't happen if clients
always write before they read (and the channels are synchronous), as
all the clients will queue up to write to request, and the server lets
them through one at a time, sending the reply back before it lets the
next one in.

try modelling it in spin...



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-21 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-19 23:15 northern snowfall
2003-05-19 22:24 ` Russ Cox
2003-05-19 22:14   ` Charles Forsyth
2003-05-19 23:29   ` northern snowfall
2003-05-19 22:38     ` Russ Cox
2003-05-19 23:45       ` northern snowfall
2003-05-21 17:27   ` rog
2003-05-21 17:26     ` Russ Cox
2003-05-21 18:28     ` northern snowfall
2003-05-21 17:33       ` Russ Cox
2003-05-21 18:50       ` rog [this message]
2003-05-22  1:09         ` okamoto
2003-05-22  9:46           ` C H Forsyth
2003-05-23  1:07             ` okamoto
2003-05-23 14:10               ` Russ Cox

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