From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: quanstro@labs.coraid.com (erik quanstrom)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:39:10 -0400
Subject: [9fans] new dial, cs and dns for ipv6
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On Fri Mar 18 19:23:13 EDT 2011, cinap_lenrek at gmx.de wrote:
> theres a first attempt of a parallel dial implementation that doesnt
> need shared memory to coordinate the the spawning:
> 
> /n/sources/contrib/cinap_lenrek/dial.c
> 
> it will run at maximum Maxconcurr connects in parallel at a time
> until there are no more addresses to connect to left, a connection
> is established or it got interrupted.
> 
> if there is only one address, it will not fork and do synchronous
> connect.
> 
> its not more complicated than the shared memory version in my opinion
> and will work with libthread programs without any tricks.

is the new dial+cs+dns deterministic?

that is, say that you can connect to a host via a variety of
protcols, do you always pick the same one?  or does that
just depend on who answers first?

- erik