| From: | Douglas McLaughlin |
| Date: | 16 Aug 2000 at 18:51:55 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Sockets, Mailboxes, Mutexes, etc... |
Hi,
> Mailboxes are similar to message ports in the classic Amiga.
> They provide a means of sending data back and forth between
> threads, even if those threads are on another machine. Unlike
> the Amiga though, they are not named, so you can't do a find
> on one.
> See page 159 in the SDK book, or /sys/kn/mbox/api.html
Ah cool. ...reading the docs... I like the mailboxes. This is the
answer to the question I posed earlier. Thanks.
Doug (PGP key available upon request.)
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