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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -18,3 +18,13 @@ provide an interface independently of the underlying [[microkernel]].
*libports* does not itself depend on *[[libthreads]]*, but the appropriate
threading hooks are used if present, that is if *[[libthreads]]* is used by
another component.
+
+
+# Message Processing
+
+## `ports_manage_multithreaded`
+
+When a message is recieved, the thread acting as receiver checks if any other
+thread is also waiting for requests. If there is none, a new thread is
+spawned. Thus, the current thread continues processing the message while the
+newly created thread starts listening for new ones.