Was waiting for someone else to say it, but you should look at what
Octopus does with its operation continuation flags.
Another interesting twist on this is "lossy" streams -- but such a
thing may be best represented outside of 9P (or perhaps with a 9P
gateway).
-eric
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:20 AM, yaroslav<yari...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > did anyone already investigate how an streaming (w/o expicit read
>> > > requests) could be done via 9P ?
>> >
>> > Why don't you use a protocol more suitable for high latencies?
>>
>> i think the problem rather is the tradition of having one
>> outstanding message per fid. as far as i can tell, 9p doesn't
>> have this restriction. we just use it that way.
>
> Maybe the way fcp(1) works is the answer?
>
> -- Yaroslav
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