Re: seen_offset vs copy_offset

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 21:19:47 +0800

On Wed, Dec 27, 2000, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
> > Why?
> >
> > the buffers that are being copied into are fixed size. As long
> > as a track the returned size from each clientcopy and only
> > register new copies to fill the rest of the buffer, what
> > could break?
>
> If you do it that way, nothing. It is simply a change to have the client
> side do the data collection of partial data instead of the "server
> side".

Its also a little uglier, but unless we want to go for a total rewrite
right now, I don't think there's many other options.

Adrian

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