From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] message passing.. sci programming
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:17:36 -0700
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:

> What semanitcs are you looking for with the messages?  If it's
> just n to 1 with in order delivery and message boundaries, you
> can just use pipes bound into the file system.  The reader does
> the bind and then exports (via exportfs) his name space to every
> system that wants to send him messages.  Each party can do the same
> to affect 2 way communication.  No special tools necessary.


I've been wondering about this. Does anyone know how much you lose in
bandwidth over raw IL or TCP links?


ron