If I understand the documentation correctly a cursor is only valid in the context of a specific connection.

I'm using a pool of MongoDB connections and if a client pages trough the results I currently have to use skip/limit (which can become quite slow for bigger values of skip) because I can't depend on getting the same connection from the pool for every request.

So please add an option to make a cursor available globally for all connections.

Another nice feature to have would be the ability to use the cursor to not just read forward, but backwards to (Use-Case: User chooses to view previous result page).

I don't really know what the syntax for this could look like, because a negative value for "limit" is already used to invalidate the cursor in place.