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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] btfs, a BitTorrent client (attempt)
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:44:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bf7be003a666abaf04362555e997dc73@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ace18cfdc26bf96b994af920c6e77e9@smgl.fr.eu.org>

> So as a first approach I was thinking of having simply one thread for
> each connection with a peer.  And maybe one group of threads (in one
> process) would be responsible for getting the pieces, while another
> one (in another process) would be responsbile for sending the pieces
> we have.  How does that sound?

why can't they communicate through the filesystem?
i would imagine you could avoid building a lot of
fancy infastructure if you did it that way.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-16 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-16 18:35 Mathieu L.
2009-07-16 18:44 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-07-16 18:46 ` Mathieu L.

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