Preserving and Using Context Information in Interprocess Communication (1989)
| Venue: | ACM Transactions on Computer Systems |
| Citations: | 210 - 24 self |
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@ARTICLE{Peterson89preservingand,
author = {Larry L. Peterson and Nick C. Buchholz and Richard D. Schlichting},
title = {Preserving and Using Context Information in Interprocess Communication},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Computer Systems},
year = {1989},
volume = {7},
pages = {217--246}
}
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Abstract
ion Psync is based on a conversation abstraction that provides a shared message space through which a collection of processes exchange messages. The general form of this message space is defined by a directed acyclic graph that preserves the partial order of the exchanged messages. For the purpose of this section, we view a conversation as an abstract data type that is implemented in shared memory; Section 3 gives an algorithm for implementing a conversation in an unreliable network. A conversation behaves much like any connection-oriented IPC abstraction: A well-defined set of processes---called participants---explicitly open a conversation, exchange messages through it, and close the conversation. Only processes that have been identified as participants may exchange message through the conversation, and this set is fixed for the duration of the conversation. Processes begin a conversation with the operations: conv = active open(participant set) conv = passive open(pid) The first...
