Wouter,
--On 28 May 2011 12:12:14 +0200 Wouter Verhelst <[email protected]> wrote:
> What about a hash table instead? There's a GHashTable in libglib-2.0,
> which we're already using.
That looks promising.
> That would also allow reusing the original
> handle number, which would make it slightly easier to match against
> what's in the transaction log.
That won't work. Consider the original sequence
Request Reply
H1
H2
H2
H1
H1
H1
where H1 gets reused. I could (in fact probably would) replay this as
Request Reply
H1
H2
H1
H2
H1
H1
in which case there are 2 H1s in flight, and I won't be able to match
up the replies.
I could however use (e.g.) the seek offset as the handle, and store
the original handle.
--
Alex Bligh
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