Serial number details in specification

Thomas Kluyver thomas at kluyver.me.uk
Fri May 10 11:31:48 UTC 2019


On Fri, May 10, 2019, at 12:28 PM, David Rheinsberg wrote:
> In theory, yes. However, the bus-policy allows matching on "expected
> replies". This means, depending on whether a reply is to a pending
> method call, or stray, you can match on it and apply a different
> policy.
> In practice, this technique is used to reject any stray replies.
> Meaning, only replies to pending method-calls are actually
> transmitted. Everything else is rejected and dropped.

Thanks, that's good to know.


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