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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Another Pathological 9P question.
Date: Tue,  5 Aug 2003 23:49:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81fa2b18c107a916b7871286a87ccac9@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308051250.h75CoS706174@augusta.math.psu.edu>

On Tue Aug  5 08:51:19 EDT 2003, cross@math.psu.edu wrote:
> Okay, here's another question: if I initiate a request on an open fid, such
> as a read, and then clunk the fid immediately afterwards but before getting
> a reply for the read and without flushing the read, what should happen?
> Should a clunk implicitly do a flush for all outstanding transactions on a
> fid, or should the read complete normally?
>
> 	- Dan C.

The client would be in error by telling the server that the file
represented by the fid was no longer needed when it clearly is.
However, most server implementations complete the read normally.


      reply	other threads:[~2003-08-06  3:49 UTC|newest]

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2003-08-05 12:50 Dan Cross
2003-08-06  3:49 ` jmk [this message]

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