[coyotos-dev] Endpoints and replies

[Charles Landau]

At 10:22 AM -0500 1/17/06, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>there are two "corner cases" that must be considered:
>
>1. ...
>
>2. Given two (or more) receivers, suppose that one receives with an
>"open wait" and the other received with a "closed wait". What happens
>when a message comes in?
>
>Both of these usages are "unusual" ...
>Case 2 is even more perverse.

There is a design option that eliminates case 2. The openness of the 
wait could be a property of the endpoint. Most commonly, servers will 
wait on open endpoints and callers will wait on closed endpoints. You 
couldn't use the same endpoint for both purposes, but I don't see a 
need for that.