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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/data_structures.txt | 10 |
1 files 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. |