[ee122] FSM
Nescio Nomen
nescionomen at gmail.com
Sun Nov 11 19:09:19 PST 2007
> > Also, do we have to handle sudden terminations, eg
> > RST flag?
>
> It's okay to provide an annotation such as "in all states except XYZ, upon
> receiving a Termination packet the state transitions to state Done" or
> such. That is, it should be clear how receipt of something like a RST is
> dealt with in terms of state transitions, but doesn't need to be illustrated
> if it will clutter the diagram rather than help clarify how states change.
>
> Vern
>
Sorry, maybe I should've been more clear. TCP only sends a RST
flagged packet when a program unexpectedly terminates, eg a crash. I
am not sure how, in our own implementation of a reliable transport
protocol (the actual code), we would send a packet after our program
crashes. Since our program crashes, how would we get it to do
anything? So I was wondering if it's a requirement to handle abrupt
terminations. I'm guessing that you're implying it is?
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