Re: [Monotone-devel] MTN-over-SSH's syntax

[Timothy Brownawell]

On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 12:49 +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> Timothy Brownawell wrote:
> > "mtn serve" locks the db, yes. But it accepts any number of simultaneous
> > network connections from clients.
> Ah, but I always thought that even if many connections were accepted in
> fact only one could actually exchange data at a time, for the way the
> locks are held.
> Or at least, the way "mtn sy" behaves when I launch it from two local
> client thread on the same server for local syncs always led me to think
> that.
> This is maybe outdated but I remember seeing one windows do the sync and
> the other "wait" for the first to finish before printing the first
> blocks of the "central/big part" of the sync process..?
> 
> Am I wrong? Else I don't see much difference in "connect as you like,
> but please wait as I serve one at a time" from "connect one at a time"...

It's always been supposed to handle actually exchanging data with
multiple simultaneous clients. But, there was a bug (fixed between .26
and .27) where the first client would be favored, almost to the complete
exclusion of later clients.

Tim
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