Re: Confusing terminology

> While this is certainly project-specific language, it's useful to people
> who may actually have to look at the code; and if they're reading
> documentation that is talking about the parts of the server in the first
> place, they're not that far away from wanting to look at code. I don't
> think that
>
> After receiving a connection request, the server spawns
> a session process to handle that client session.
>
> is an improvement --- it seems more to have reduced the concept to a
> tautology. (Also, as seen here, I don't care for using "session"
> to describe a process. A session is a different sort of animal.)

Yes, I feel session is something that exists between the client and the
server. It is not a server-only concept.

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