23 Aug
2014
23 Aug
'14
8:30 a.m.
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 07:01:40AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014, Larry McVoy wrote:
You'all can use it anywhere you like.
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/tcp.shar
It's not that big a deal (other than 20 years of bug fixes :)
Somewhere I have a bigger deal, at least I think it is, I made a library
to talk to Sun RPC servers in parallel. I called it rpc vectors and Ron
Minnich used it to put a bunch of nfs servers together, he called that
bigfoot. Paper below, if someone wants that code I can ship that too.
It was pretty neat, back in the days of 10Mbit ethernet I was querying
thousands of machines in a single call. The code dealt with the fact
that you had to start eating the replies before you were done sending
the question :)
http://wenku.baidu.com/view/797c4ac62cc58bd63186bd1c.html
or for old school people
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/bitmover/lm/papers/bigfoot.ps
The code was pretty small, pretty clever, it's a shame it didn't catch on.
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
If anyone wants the stuff we use, the stuff
mentioned above, I can put
it up on the web.
Pretty please! For private use only, of course.