Re: VatTP and Waterken protocols compared
"Ben Laurie" <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Tyler Close <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Ben Laurie <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Bill Frantz <[email protected]> wrote: >>> (2) In the Waterken system, a message which causes a serious >>> program failure (e.g. running out of space in the current >>> implementation) will be repeated, possibly causing that failure >>> over and over, until someone repairs the offending program. >> >> Also, an evil recipient can stall the sender by never processing messages. > > The sender has an independent message queue for each recipient host, > so an evil recipient can only stall its own reception of messages. > Other recipients are not affected. So what happens when the sender tries to queue a message to the full queue? > > --Tyler > _______________________________________________ > e-lang mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.eros-os.org/mailman/listinfo/e-lang >