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| author | Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> | 2011-12-19 06:28:18 +0100 |
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| committer | Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> | 2011-12-19 06:28:18 +0100 |
| commit | 83a6603ed188d746e2871decf85939fb7975b979 (patch) | |
| tree | 5f671db8fa7e3828322a4d4b1b9cdce9b4bb6ac4 /hurd/libports.mdwn | |
| parent | d8b7944e910af3fdc1109846698d67738761f85a (diff) | |
| parent | 6c057cff39ff782e9155c07eee44884cd9c48c9c (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of flubber:~hurd-web/hurd-web
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| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/libports.mdwn | 19 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/libports.mdwn b/hurd/libports.mdwn index 28274338..6f2cd46d 100644 --- a/hurd/libports.mdwn +++ b/hurd/libports.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!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 +18,20 @@ 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. ([[!taglink +open_issue_hurd]]: [[open_issues/multithreading]].) + +Also, there are configurable timeouts for [[translator]]s who want to go away +when they are not used. ([[!taglink open_issue_hurd]]: there used to be bugs +in this area, [[!message-id "87hev152we.fsf@becket.becket.net"]], but it may be +fixed as of [[!message-id "20111030210045.GA4983@myhost"]], +[[!GNU_Savannah_Git_hurd_hurd 9b5429e834cde56f73b8ff605e36afc7d9bb6e1b]].) |