Re: FLOW, DATAGRAM, CHANNEL, RPC

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

These do need some refactoring, but the basic idea is:

FLOW: unbuffered byte-stream (e.g. TCP with each write being a segment)
CHANNEL: buffered stream (e.g. TCP with each write buffered and TCP 
segmentation done)
DATAGRAM: each read/write sends a separate message (e.g. UDP)

RPC: deprecated and unused, should be safe to delete and things should still 
compile. 

It should be possible to build a Vchan implementation with FLOW, since that is 
also unbuffered stream.

-anil

On 25 Apr 2013, at 14:30, Vincent Bernardoff <vb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I’m documenting mirage-net, and in particular nettypes.mli.
> 
> Could anybody explain me (in brief) what do the module types FLOW, DATAGRAM, 
> CHANNEL and RPC describe ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Vincent
>