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Expand the comment on ordering guarantee in the network document

author Alberto Bertogli
2008-05-26 02:37:53 UTC
committer Alberto Bertogli
2008-05-26 02:37:53 UTC
parent 79ad211b5d6fb6b08b7e11d9c81c5989cc81e3d8
Expand the comment on ordering guarantee in the network document

Thanks to Rodrigo Campos (rodrigocc@gmail.com) for reporting.

Signed-off-by: Alberto Bertogli <albertito@gmail.com>
doc/network.rst +2 -1 
diff --git a/doc/network.rst b/doc/network.rst
index c1e9909..132435f 100644
--- a/doc/network.rst
+++ b/doc/network.rst
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ protocol. It can be used on top of TIPC, UDP, TCP (with a thin messaging
 layer) or SCTP. This document describes the protocol in a
 transport-independent way, assuming the transport protocol can send and
 receive messages reliably and preserve message boundaries. No ordering
-guarantees are required.
+guarantee is required for the request-reply part of the protocol, but it is
+highly desirable to avoid reordering of requests.
 
 
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