Re: auth handshake and rendevouz objects

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:19:22AM -0600, Tom Hart wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> >You don't want the server do the work for A.  All the burden of sending a
> >blocking message to B should be on A, not on S.
> 
> Something my prof and I were discussing: why should A block on sending a 
> message to B? Doesn't it make more sense for A to create a "courier" 
> thread that does the blocking IPC on A's behalf?

Because that's what you normally want.  If a user needs asynchronous
operation, you can always create a thread for that yourself, while getting
synchronous operation with asynchronous being the default is impossible (or
very hard).

In short, I have no idea why you would anything but a blocking (but
interruptible) send here.

Thanks,
Marcus

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