[Info-vax] Mailbox driver analysis regarding greater than 65535 messages in mailbox

[Marc Van Dyck]

Arne Vajhøj wrote :
> On 11/30/2020 6:29 PM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>> With minimal investigation (about an hour, which includes some email 
>> conversation), we suspect the proper way to deal with
>> this is to return an error to a writer if the mailbox has 65535 messages 
>> and to document this limitation.
>
> I think it makes sense.
>
> Supporting >=64K properly will break a lot.
>
> And mailboxes should not be used to buffer that
> many messages.
>
> But OP had some unique requirements.
> 
Which I can handle with 65535 messages. So for me Robert's proposal
is fine.
>
> Arne
>
> PS: So SS$_TOO_MUCH_IN_THIS_POOR_MAILBOX ?  :-)

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Marc Van Dyck