From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:58:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 10/14] pkt-line: add functions to read/write flush terminated packet streams
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.