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diff --git a/microkernel/mach/mig.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/mig.mdwn index 4275a4b4..331b3bf4 100644 --- a/microkernel/mach/mig.mdwn +++ b/microkernel/mach/mig.mdwn @@ -1,21 +1,34 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software -Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 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 document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled -[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] -The Mach Interface Generator (MIG) is an [[IDL]] compiler. Based on an -interface definition, it creates stubs to [[invoke]] object methods -and to demultiplex incoming messages. These stubs conveniently hide -the details of Mach's [[IPC]] machinery and make it easy to implement -and use Mach [[interface]]s as [[remote_procedure_calls_(RPC)|rpc]]. +The *Mach Interface Generator* (*MIG*) is an [[IDL]] compiler. Based on an +interface definition, it creates stub code to [[invoke]] object methods and to +demultiplex incoming messages. These stub functions conveniently hide the +details of Mach's [[IPC]] and [[port]] machinery and make it easy to implement +and use Mach [[interface]]s as [[remote procedure calls (RPC)|rpc]]: by using +the stub functions, the client programs can call remote procedures more or less +like any other C function. + +These functions encode arguments into [[message]]s' format (*marshalling*), +wait for a result on a newly created [[reply port|port]], decode return +arguments from the reply message (*demarshalling*, or *unmarshalling*) and pass +them to the client program. Similar actions are provided in the skeletons that +are linked to server programs. + +MIG allows very precise semantics to be specified about what the arguments are +and how to be passed. + + + * [[Documentation]] -* [[Documentation]] # Implementations |