Thank you very much. I am not a native English speeker so I have problem when understanding this sentense. Now I know that the word "quiet" is an adjective and I'm totally catch it. Thank you~
On 8/14/05, Peter Decker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/14/05, could ildg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The paragraph is as below, I mark the word quiet with *** ***. > > ___________________________________ > > One problem with distributed applications is that if no data arrives > > over a long period of time, you need to wonder why. On one hand, it > > could be that the other program just hasn't had any information to > > send recently. On the other hand, the other program could have > > crashed. TCP handles this problem by allowing you to send an "Are you > > still alive?" message every so often to ***quiet*** connections. The > > way is to call setKeepAlive() with a value of true. > > ___________________________________ > > Please tell me what does the word "quiet" mean, Thank you~ > > It means that the remote application has sent any data recently: 'if > no data arrives over a long period of time'. We commonly say that two > programs 'talk' to each other, or that one program 'tells' the other > when it has received input. If these programs aren't 'saying' > anything, they're considered to be 'quiet'. The paragraph you quoted > is concerned with determining why the remote app hasn't 'said' > anything in a while: has it crashed, or is it really not getting any > data to relay. > -- > > # p.d. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
