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| author | forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com> | 2010-02-05 11:01:55 +0000 |
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| committer | forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com> | 2010-02-05 11:01:55 +0000 |
| commit | aaab9bcca9a6fd14bd8496059b80b984906db6bc (patch) | |
| tree | e17885b21ac218b0ae9eb3ff3fdcc91e6d9bd1a6 /man/2/styxflush | |
| parent | cfa39d5adff9be3c5f695c2c28cffb5f93dd4598 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/2/styxflush | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man/2/styxflush b/man/2/styxflush index b03c5883..845e8973 100644 --- a/man/2/styxflush +++ b/man/2/styxflush @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .TH STYXFLUSH 2 .SH NAME -styxflush \- handler for styx flush protocol +styxflush \- handler for 9P (Styx) flush protocol .SH SYNOPSIS .EX include "sys.m"; @@ -16,17 +16,17 @@ rmsg: fn(m: ref Styx->Rmsg): int; Einterrupted: con "interrupted"; .EE .SH DESCRIPTION -Getting the semantics of the Styx +Getting the semantics of the 9P .IR flush (5) protocol correct when handling requests concurrently is surprisingly hard to do. .I Styxflush -is designed to help get it right. It deals with Styx -messages for a single styx session \- if a server needs to +is designed to help get it right. It deals with 9P +messages for a single 9P session \- if a server needs to deal with multiple sessions, then multiple instances of .I styxflush should be loaded. It assumes there is a loop in a central process -which both reads T-messages and sends their R-message replies. +that both reads T-messages and sends their R-message replies. .I Styxflush handles the flushing of requests that are being run outside the central process. |