Re: [tlaplus] Guarantee message passing

Hello Stephen,

I see. It's a safety property. I was worried sending and receiving a message in the same step would be incorrect in a more... concrete specification (closer to programming languages). My thinking was more in line of "how do I guarantee the next step will be a Reply step from some process after a Send step?" So it seems, in idealized networking conditions, I should Send and Receive in the same step.

Thanks,

Jones

On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 at 05:25, Stephan Merz <stephan.merz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A process reacting immediately to a received message is a safety property, so this should be specified as part of the next-state relation, along the lines of

Act(p) == \E q \in Procs : \E msg \in msgs[q,p] :
/\ msgs' = [msgs EXCEPT ![q,p] = @ \ {msg},
![p,q] = @ \cup Answer(p, q, msg)]
/\ ... \* update of local variables

assuming that msgs is a two-dimensional array containing the messages in transit between processes.

Stephan

On 18 Nov 2021, at 04:20, Jones Martins <jonesmvc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello everyone,

Sorry for keeping this too abstract. I may give an example later on if necessary.

In a process communication network, is there any way to guarantee a process to respond to some message immediately (or as soon as possible) after receiving it?

I'm dealing with timeouts, but I'm modelling a system with perfect communication (there are no delays, no lost messages). Since there are no delays, we expect other processes to respond immediately. I tried to add Strong Fairness to this "Respond" action, but it still does not guarantee anything.

Regards,

Jones

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