Re: [9fans] 9P/Styx: streaming / contigious reading

2009-08-31 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
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

Re: [9fans] 9P/Styx: streaming / contigious reading

2009-08-31 Thread yaroslav
> > > 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,

Re: [9fans] 9P/Styx: streaming / contigious reading

2009-08-31 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Aug 31 09:00:33 EDT 2009, 23h...@googlemail.com wrote: > 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

Re: [9fans] 9P/Styx: streaming / contigious reading

2009-08-31 Thread hiro
Why don't you use a protocol more suitable for high latencies? On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > did anyone already investigate how an streaming (w/o expicit read > requests) could be done via 9P ? > > An option could be adding a new opcode telling the ser