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Re: MIG manuals


From: Marcus Brinkmann
Subject: Re: MIG manuals
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:31:11 +0200
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On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 06:24:11PM +0300, Ognyan Kulev wrote:
> BTW Why in proc/main.c there is global_lock that is used in message_demuxer
> if proc is single-threaded?

proc is not single threaded in the sense that there is only one thread.  We
need multiple threads to handle signal delivery correctly and some other
stuff (responding to init without delay).

However, apart from that all incoming RPCs are serialized.

Thanks,
Marcus



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