[plug] Parallel linkups.

[Craig Ringer]

> Interactive in this context means response-sensitive such as in
> telnet.

That was the assumption I was working on in my response. Web traffic is 
in a sense quite latency sensitive, but it won't really /matter/ to a 
business if web traffic is slightly laggy. The same is not true of an 
interactive terminal app the users spend all day in.

> Lusers reboot their PCs when the
> terminal session appears unresponsive for 10 seconds. They are so
> used to PCs crashing and applications "locking up" that that is how
> they "solve" the problem.

This is particularly fun when the application on the other end was 
written in the days of dumb terminals, and doesn't even have a concept 
of "unexpected user disconnection." Handle unexpected termination? Well, 
if you call database corruption "handled" then sure it does...

--
Craig Ringer