From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPad Mail 8C148) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: <319CCC8A-7CC8-4814-8608-FFFA624C04FD@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Nemo Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:55:15 +0100 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] streams Topicbox-Message-UUID: b26104d6-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 why not mux tcp instead? On Feb 20, 2011, at 2:35 AM, 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 implementatio= n > was built on UDP. a service to resolve addressing puzzles might be useful t= oo. >=20