Re: The Epic of MRUlist.

2020-04-28 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Ian Bruene via devel : > * What happens when a packet in the middle of the sequence is dropped? Who > knows! If it is seen as a timeout then the client will adjust packet size > and try again... forever. Or maybe it silently doesn't notice? > > * What happens when the final packet is dropped?

Re: The Epic of MRUlist

2020-04-28 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> After a great deal of refactoring, digging, confusion, and generalized > wrestling with the surprising number of tentacles that comprise the mrulist > system I can now make a report of sorts: Great. Thanks. Did you fix anything in the process? Are you describing the current code or

The Epic of MRUlist.

2020-04-28 Thread Ian Bruene via devel
After a great deal of refactoring, digging, confusion, and generalized wrestling with the surprising number of tentacles that comprise the mrulist system I can now make a report of sorts: *Error handling expected by the protocol:* * If there is no overlap between the requested entries and