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Re: [Trans] Long Poll

Evgeny <xramtsov@gmail.com> Thu, 21 March 2019 16:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Trans] Long Poll
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 7:03 PM, Eran Messeri <eranm@google.com> wrote:
> The reason is it doesn't make sense to ask for new entries unless you 
> know they're there - by first calling get-sth to learn of a new tree 
> head.

In this case I can poll for get-sth, no? From section 8.2:

 > Fetch the current STH (Section 5.2).  Repeat until the STH changes.

How this "repeat" will look in practice? Like while(0) {... sleep(1)}?

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