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- Network Working Group Steve Wolfe
- Request for Comments: #202 UCLA-CCN
- NIC #7155 Jon Postel
- Categories: D UCLA-NMC
- References: Document #2 26 July 1971
- Obsoletes: None
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- We have noticed a possible deadlock situation which may arise using the
- Initial Connection Protocol (ICP) specified in Document #2 (NIC #7101 in
- the Current Network Protocols Notebook NIC #7104).
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- If on both sides one RFC is issued and a "wait for match" is required
- before the second RFC is issued, it is possible that the first RFC's
- will not match. In particular a deadlock will occur if both sides open
- their send or both sides open their receive sockets first.
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- Briefly the ICP is:
- <where the original uses a script lowercase letter with a single digit
- subscript we use the lower case letter followed by {digit} so that
- script-m-subscript-2 is printed m{2}>
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- Server User
- ------ ----
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- S1: Listen on socket L. U1: RTS(U, L, l{1})
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- S2: Wait for a match. U2: Wait for match.
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- S3: STR(L, U, s{1})
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- S4: Wait for allocation. U3: All(l{1}, m{1}, b{1})
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- S5: Send data S in s{1} bit U4: Receive data S in s{1}
- bytes as allowed by bit bytes.
- allocation m{1}, b{1}.
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- S6: CLS(L, U) U5: CLS(U, L)
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- S7: RTS(S, U+3, l{2}) U6: STR(U+3, S, s{2})
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- S8: STR(S+1, U+2, s{3}) U7: RTS(U+2, S+1, l{3})
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- "The labels here imply no ordering except that ordering required by the
- Host-Host Protocol. Note that steps S7 and S8 can be reversed as can U6
- and U7. Also, notice that at any time after S2 the server could
- initiate steps S7 and S8 in parallel with steps S3 through S6, and that
- at any time after U4 the user could initiate steps U6 and U7 in parallel
- with step U5."
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- We recommend that the server perform steps 7 and 8 before waiting for
- the user to perform step 6 or 7. It is also suggested that the user
- issue the RFC's in steps 6 and 7 without waiting for the server. (If
- the user is only Listening then both Listens should be issued without
- waiting for the server.) If for some reason a host must delay between
- issuing RFC's it must issue the RFC's involving sockets S and U+3 first.
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- [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
- [ into the online RFC archives by Robert Barnes 6/97 ]
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