"Do this, and come back when you're done"

[Paul Rubin]

"Donn Cave" <donn at drizzle.com> writes:
> Yes.  I may be missing something here, because the followups
> I have seen strike me as somewhat misguided, if they're not
> just fooling with you.  You already have two independent threads
> or processes here, one on each machine.  All you need to do is
> take the results from the remote machine AFTER the local computation.
> Move the line that says "remoteMD5hash = Socket.recv(256)" to
> after the block that ends with "localMD5hash = hasher.hexdigest()".
> No?

Can the remote process time out if the local side takes too long to
read from the socket?  That could happen if the two machines aren't
the same speed.