Re: requests for features to replace multiprocessing in servers

[Martin A. <ma...@cs...>]

On 9 May 2000, Sam Steingold wrote:

> >>>> In message <14616.13772.485724.901198@ragged>
> >>>> On the subject of "Re: requests for features to replace multiprocessing in servers"
> >>>> Sent on Tue May 09 11:02:01 EDT 2000
> >>>> Honorable Don Cohen <do...@ni...> writes:
>  >>   Sam Steingold
>  >>   byte streams are not interactive and CLHS forbids what you want.
>  >> 
>  >> Why do you think byte streams are non-interactive?
> 
> interactive streams interact with a user.
> users type characters, not bytes.
What about a user doing a telnet?

In my interpretation of CLHS, it does not forbid *socket* byte-streams to be
interactive (see section 21.1.1.1.3 
"An interactive stream is one on which it makes sense to perform interactive
querying. 
The precise meaning of an interactive stream is implementation-defined, ..."


Cheers,

#:martin


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