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Date: Thu,  8 Sep 2011 09:56:10 -0700
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From: John Floren <john@jfloren.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9ttp
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On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:31 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrot=
e:
>> > On Thursday 08 of September 2011 14:54:40 erik quanstrom wrote:
>> > > On Thu Sep =A08 04:52:08 EDT 2011, 23hiro@googlemail.com wrote:
>> > > > HTTP is technically different and not easily comparable to 9p. HTT=
P is
>> > > > not a good example of how to do things, but over high-latency link=
s 9p
>> > >
>> > > =A0 =A0 =A0 with a single outstanding request
>> > >
>> > > > is much slower for getting files.
>> > >
>> > > there, fixed that for ya.
>> >
>> > is 9p windowable at all? is that implemented?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> 9p has tagged requests.
>
> cf. /sys/src/cmd/fcp.c
>
> - erik
>
>

I do not think it is acceptable to have to fork repeatedly merely to
efficiently read a file. Also, as far as I can tell, exactly one
program (fcp) does that.

Can a single process have multiple outstanding requests? My
investigations indicated not, but then again I may have mis-read
things.


John