Access Controls

linas@linas.org linas@linas.org
Tue, 2 Jan 2001 15:18:18 -0600 (CST)


It's been rumoured that Derek Atkins said:
>  Again, see my long mail for a more "coherent" explanation.

Do you envision keeping one socket open for the entire session?
Or can a socket be torn down and rebuilt without loosing the session?


I envision, for example, a gnucash client staying up for days or
weeks, but the socket to the server going down, e.g. because some
firewall or dslam router recycled.  Would I have to stop & restart
the gnucash client, or just continue? What about events in that case?
Do they get queued up in a pending queue, or simply discarded cause
the client isn't listening?

(the http world has trained us to think of socket connections as
relatively fleeting, ephemeral things, and that's not bad; it just
raises some interesting issues.)

--linas