sirikata/sirikata — Issue #476: Use location update request epoch values to ignore out of date requests
Author: ewencp
Created: 2012-01-18 16:48:08+00:00
State: open

Currently it's possible for location updates to arrive out of order on the space server -- they are reliable but each is on its own substream. Since requests come with epoch numbers (seqnos), we can use these to keep track of the latest request handled and ignore older requests.