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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] doc: technical/data_structures: update for EOFpipe
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 13:23:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210310132345.28283-2-e@80x24.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210310132345.28283-1-e@80x24.org>

ParentPipe no longer exists and was replaced by the more
flexible EOFpipe.
---
 Documentation/technical/data_structures.txt | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/data_structures.txt b/Documentation/technical/data_structures.txt
index 8776a67b..4dcf9ce6 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/data_structures.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/data_structures.txt
@@ -222,10 +222,8 @@ daemon classes
   given PublicInbox::Config which may be instantiated more than
   once in the future.
 
-* PublicInbox::ParentPipe
+* PublicInbox::EOFpipe
 
-  Per-worker process class to detect shutdown of master process.
-  This is not used if using -W0 to disable worker processes
-  in public-inbox-httpd or public-inbox-nntpd.
-
-  This is a per-worker singleton.
+  Used throughout to trigger a callback when a pipe(7) is closed.
+  This is frequently used to portably detect process exit without
+  relying on a catch-all waitpid(-1, ...) call.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-10 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-10 13:23 [PATCH 0/5] no trash, glossary doc Eric Wong
2021-03-10 13:23 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2021-03-10 13:23 ` [PATCH 2/5] watch: IMAP: ignore \Deleted and \Draft messages Eric Wong
2021-03-10 13:23 ` [PATCH 3/5] lei import: simplify Maildir handling Eric Wong
2021-03-10 13:23 ` [PATCH 4/5] lei import: skip trashed Maildir messages Eric Wong
2021-03-10 13:23 ` [PATCH 5/5] doc: start glossary for overlapping concepts Eric Wong

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