On 23 March 2011 17:55, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > On Wed Mar 23 16:43:55 EDT 2011, pau...@gmail.com wrote: >> Both readers and writers are clients of a 9p file server. It decides >> who to answer. It is not specified by the protocol. > > excellent answer. > > i'd like to add, though, since tags are chosen by the client, > the 9p messages can't be multicast at the transport or > network layer. > > so if data becomes available that could unblock both readers > the file server may pick one, neither, or send the same data > (with different tags, etc) to both.
Erik and Gorka, thank you for the prompt and clear answers.
