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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-12-13 20:22:52 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-12-13 20:22:52 +0100 |
| commit | 4eea3efc13acccfb613571f604f17e0ec68e5bed (patch) | |
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``Some'' Mach documentation.
Parts have been rescued from
4b382d8daa5a9e2d54e78c18beeff76bc54dc16b:Mach/MachConcepts.mdwn.
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diff --git a/microkernel/mach/rpc.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/rpc.mdwn index 72acfaa0..60275a86 100644 --- a/microkernel/mach/rpc.mdwn +++ b/microkernel/mach/rpc.mdwn @@ -1,15 +1,21 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2003, 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]]."]]"""]] -[[General_information|/rpc]] about RPC. +Read about the [[general concept of a *remote procedure call* (RPC)|/rpc]]. Uses Mach's [[IPC]] [[mechanism]]. -Stub code generated by [[MIG]]. +The [[port]] abstraction allows RPCs to be executed on another computer +transparently. This can be implemented with user [[task]]s, but there is an +implementation in the kernel possible, too, which is called *NORMA*, but is not +avilable in [[GNU Mach|gnumach]]. + +The RPC stub code generated by [[MIG]]. |