Hi John--

	At http://netjam.org/correspondents/advocacy.html I write:

> [Currently] there is only one Smalltalk semaphore provided for 
> synchronization with all a socket's network events. It's possible
> to get a writeability signal while waiting for readability, and
> vice-versa. Also, one cannot wait for both at the same time. It is 
> therefore not possible to correctly implement protocols in which
> separate Smalltalk Processes read from and write to a socket. The 
> implementation requires that correctly-functioning protocols which 
> use it will read and write sequentially in a single Smalltalk Process, 
> consume all available incoming data before writing, and finish writing 
> before new incoming data arrives. This is okay for simple call-response 
> protocols like POP, but not for more complex ones like IRCP. 

	Why do you disagree with this?


	thanks,

-C


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