[e-lang] VatTP and Waterken protocols compared

[Ben Laurie]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Tyler Close <tyler.close at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Ben Laurie <benl at google.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Bill Frantz <frantz at pwpconsult.com> wrote:
>>> (2) In the Waterken system, a message which causes a serious
>>> program failure (e.g. running out of space in the current
>>> implementation) will be repeated, possibly causing that failure
>>> over and over, until someone repairs the offending program.
>>
>> Also, an evil recipient can stall the sender by never processing messages.
>
> The sender has an independent message queue for each recipient host,
> so an evil recipient can only stall its own reception of messages.
> Other recipients are not affected.

So what happens when the sender tries to queue a message to the full queue?

>
> --Tyler
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