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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 - the next 20 years
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:04:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9260943c5ab5bb05fd7db0b5f7cfdbc0@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df49a7370904210323w312b6928m563c9fd4972065d@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue Apr 21 06:25:49 EDT 2009, rogpeppe@gmail.com wrote:
> 2009/4/21 maht <mattmobile@proweb.co.uk>:
> > Tag 3 could conceivably arrive at the server before Tag 2
>
> that's not true, otherwise the flush semantics wouldn't
> work correctly. 9p *does* require in-order delivery.

i have never needed to do anything important with flush.
so i'm asking from ignorance.

what is the important use case of flush and why is this
so important that it drives the design?

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-21 12:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-17 22:08 Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-04-17 22:15 ` ron minnich
2009-04-17 22:35   ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-17 23:01     ` ron minnich
2009-04-18  2:06       ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18  2:39         ` ron minnich
2009-04-18  2:43           ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18  5:55           ` lucio
2009-04-18  3:37         ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-18  4:04           ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18  4:16             ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-18  5:57               ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18 13:50                 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-18 14:53                   ` lucio
2009-04-18 15:07                   ` ron minnich
2009-04-18 15:11                     ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-18 16:13                       ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18 16:10                   ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18 16:20                     ` ron minnich
2009-04-18 16:26                       ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-18 16:36                       ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18 16:53                         ` tlaronde
2009-04-18 17:12                           ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-04-18 17:37                             ` ron minnich
2009-04-18 23:31                               ` Charles Forsyth
2009-04-18 23:26                                 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18 17:35                           ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18  5:58           ` lucio
2009-04-18 11:59   ` tlaronde
2009-04-18 14:31     ` tlaronde
2009-04-18 15:05     ` ron minnich
2009-04-18 15:33       ` tlaronde
2009-04-23 16:56       ` tlaronde
2009-04-24 15:33         ` ron minnich
2009-04-24 16:43           ` tlaronde
2009-04-18 15:16   ` Latchesar Ionkov
2009-04-19 19:34     ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-04-19 19:52       ` ron minnich
2009-04-19  7:12 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-04-19 15:26   ` David Leimbach
2009-04-20  2:14     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-04-20 14:58       ` Uriel
2009-04-20 17:18         ` maht
2009-04-20 18:15           ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-20 18:30             ` maht
2009-04-20 19:02           ` Charles Forsyth
2009-04-20 18:03         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-04-20 18:07           ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-23  5:07             ` sqweek
2009-04-23  5:36               ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-04-23 11:51                 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-20 18:18           ` David Leimbach
2009-04-20 18:35             ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-20 18:55               ` David Leimbach
2009-04-20 19:03                 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-20 20:17                   ` David Leimbach
2009-04-20 20:33                     ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-20 21:18                       ` David Leimbach
2009-04-20 21:28                         ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-04-21  8:19                           ` roger peppe
2009-04-21 12:00                             ` roger peppe
2009-04-21 16:52                             ` David Leimbach
2009-04-21 17:06                               ` roger peppe
2009-04-21 17:11                                 ` David Leimbach
2009-04-21  7:38                       ` Bakul Shah
2009-04-20 19:13                 ` Steve Simon
2009-04-20 19:22                   ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-20 18:39           ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-04-21  9:52             ` maht
2009-04-21 10:23               ` roger peppe
2009-04-21 12:04                 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-04-21 14:03                   ` roger peppe
2009-04-21 14:09                     ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-21 14:33                       ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2009-04-21 14:50                         ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-21 16:03                           ` roger peppe
2009-04-21 16:09                             ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-21 17:12                               ` roger peppe
2009-04-21 17:43                                 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-21 18:14                                   ` roger peppe
2009-04-21 16:38                             ` Bakul Shah
2009-04-21 16:59                               ` roger peppe
2009-04-21 16:10                           ` Bakul Shah
2009-04-21 16:25                             ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-21 17:03                               ` David Leimbach
2009-04-21 17:23                               ` roger peppe
2009-04-21 16:53               ` David Leimbach
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-04-17 16:32 [9fans] VMs, etc. (was: Re: security questions) blstuart
2009-04-17 19:16 ` [9fans] Plan9 - the next 20 years Steve Simon
2009-04-17 19:39   ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-17 19:43   ` tlaronde
2009-04-17 19:56     ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-17 20:14     ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-04-17 20:18       ` Benjamin Huntsman
2009-04-18  4:26         ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-17 20:29       ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18  3:56         ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-18  4:12           ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18  4:16             ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-18  5:51               ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18 12:52       ` Steve Simon
2009-04-17 20:20   ` John Barham

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