Re: [PATCH v9 10/14] pkt-line: add functions to read/write flush terminated packet streams

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 4, 2016, 19:58 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq1szvubsb.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8tu3ubzl.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> I must be missing something.  Is the other side always supposed to
> give a flush packet or something?  Perhaps that is what is happening
> here.  If so, I am OK with that, even though it somehow sounds a bit
> wasteful.

Ah, scratch that. What I was missing was that this channel is designed to carry multiple interactions and delimiting with EOF which by definition can happen only once cannot be a norm. Expecting a flush to declare the current stream terminated is perfectly fine.

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