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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:17:38 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Distributed Pipelines
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On Mon Apr 26 18:04:40 EDT 2010, akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>
> Thanks for figuring that bit out!
> Indeed, it seems TCP is the
> problem, and IL seems to work
> fine for me for the moment:
>
> echo '1 2 3' | rx il!$cpu!17009 awk -f $home/comp.awk | gview
>
> works perfectly!
>
> I'll try to dig deeper into the TCP case.

tcp doesn't preserve message boundaries, so
the 0-byte write should get tossed.  i don't think
there's any hope with rx's current setup.  you'd
need to resort to stuffing or some other how-to-
hide-yer-oob data trick or alternately a tcp
half-close.

- erik