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Subject: Re: [9fans] Channel casting
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 13:33:22 -0400
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> 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