29 Apr
2007
29 Apr
'07
9:18 p.m.
Peter Dimov wrote:
Jeff Garland wrote:
But you've already fallen into the trap. Just because the computers are next to each other doesn't mean you are going to get an immediate answer. For example, one of the computers you are communicating with might be really busy doing something (swapping perhaps if it's overloaded).
The same can (and does) happen with local calls if the computer is really busy or starts paging.
Right, but the programmer has no way of reasonably detecting and handling that condition from within his program. If it's on a remote machine he can and should because it's a frequent issue with networked programs. Jeff