On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 12:52:07PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > I vaguely recall talking with somebody (perhaps it was Shawn Pearce) > > about my long-time complaint on the on-the-wire protocol, in that > > the protocol sometimes uses flush to merely mean "I've finished > > speaking one section of my speech" and sometimes "I've done talking > > for now and it's your turn to speak to me" (the receiving end needs > > to know which one a particular flush means without knowing the > > context in which it is issued---which makes it impossible to write a > > protocol agnostic proxy. > > > > If the above proposal means that we'll have an explicit way to say > > "Not just I am done with one section of my speech, but it is your > > turn to speak and I am going to listen", that would be wonderful. > > I think we already have that now in v2 because of the "0001" delim > packet. All of the flushes are (I think) really "this is the end of my > speech", and any inner "my list is ending, but I have more to say" > delimiters are "0001". Sadly, this is only _mostly_ true. See my response in: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200518205854.GB63978@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ -Peff
