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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Channel casting
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 13:33:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e65825fe6b57872fa9377f978b10390b@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ECBC538.5090608@ameritech.net>

> What I was mainly worried about was timing.
> If one thread sends a request, but, another
> thread preempts that first thread's call to
> recv, wont the second thread receive the
> server thread's response?

The way I wrote the server it's only ever handling
one request at a time, which means that only the
thread who sent that request has finished sending.

You're right that if the server handles multiple
requests at a time then you need a reply channel.

Russ



  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-21 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-19 23:15 northern snowfall
2003-05-19 22:24 ` Russ Cox
2003-05-19 22:14   ` Charles Forsyth
2003-05-19 23:29   ` northern snowfall
2003-05-19 22:38     ` Russ Cox
2003-05-19 23:45       ` northern snowfall
2003-05-21 17:27   ` rog
2003-05-21 17:26     ` Russ Cox
2003-05-21 18:28     ` northern snowfall
2003-05-21 17:33       ` Russ Cox [this message]
2003-05-21 18:50       ` rog
2003-05-22  1:09         ` okamoto
2003-05-22  9:46           ` C H Forsyth
2003-05-23  1:07             ` okamoto
2003-05-23 14:10               ` Russ Cox

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