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@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ basically a summary of clientserver.c and authenticate.c.
-- Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org>
+$Id$
+
@@ -54,6 +56,11 @@ So if the client specifies a list of files to be included or excluded,
they'll defer to existing limits specified in the server
configuration.
+At this point the client and server both switch to using a
+multiplexing layer across the socket. The main point of this is to
+allow the server to asynchronously pass errors back, while still
+allowing streamed and pipelined data.
+
The server then talks to the client as normal across the socket,
passing checksums, file lists and so on. For documentation of that,
stay tuned (or write it yourself!).