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author | Rickard Green <rickard@erlang.org> | 2012-12-07 00:28:50 +0100 |
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committer | Rickard Green <rickard@erlang.org> | 2012-12-07 00:28:50 +0100 |
commit | 6027f852217f0014f1892fbbfa45c69e104da652 (patch) | |
tree | bdb10abcf579b5607dc287b395fb15fa667b0512 /system/doc/reference_manual | |
parent | d29c460c4ad1ca0cc2fb6a13a81b4ccc07516941 (diff) | |
parent | 3f85767e086e08b70baee34d719df9a8bc8814f4 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'rickard/port-optimizations/OTP-10336' into rickard/r16/port-optimizations/OTP-10336
* rickard/port-optimizations/OTP-10336:
Change annotate level for emacs-22 in cerl
Update etp-commands
Add documentation on communication in Erlang
Add support for busy port message queue
Add driver callback epilogue
Implement true asynchronous signaling between processes and ports
Add erl_drv_[send|output]_term
Move busy port flag
Use rwlock for driver list
Optimize management of port tasks
Improve configuration of process and port tables
Remove R9 compatibility features
Use ptab functionality also for ports
Prepare for use of ptab functionality also for ports
Atomic port state
Generalize process table implementation
Implement functionality for delaying thread progress from unmanaged threads
Conflicts:
erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml
erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
erts/emulator/beam/beam_bif_load.c
erts/emulator/beam/beam_bp.c
erts/emulator/beam/beam_emu.c
erts/emulator/beam/bif.c
erts/emulator/beam/copy.c
erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.c
erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.types
erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_info.c
erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_port.c
erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_trace.c
erts/emulator/beam/erl_init.c
erts/emulator/beam/erl_message.c
erts/emulator/beam/erl_port_task.c
erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.c
erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.h
erts/emulator/beam/erl_process_lock.c
erts/emulator/beam/erl_trace.c
erts/emulator/beam/export.h
erts/emulator/beam/global.h
erts/emulator/beam/io.c
erts/emulator/sys/unix/sys.c
erts/emulator/sys/vxworks/sys.c
erts/emulator/test/port_SUITE.erl
erts/etc/unix/cerl.src
erts/preloaded/ebin/erlang.beam
erts/preloaded/ebin/prim_inet.beam
erts/preloaded/src/prim_inet.erl
lib/hipe/cerl/erl_bif_types.erl
lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml
lib/kernel/src/inet.erl
Diffstat (limited to 'system/doc/reference_manual')
-rw-r--r-- | system/doc/reference_manual/ports.xml | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/ports.xml b/system/doc/reference_manual/ports.xml index 4847dd67cd..c4e4ef1d35 100644 --- a/system/doc/reference_manual/ports.xml +++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/ports.xml @@ -87,8 +87,14 @@ of bytes, the option <c>binary</c> must be included.</p> <p>The port owner <c>Pid</c> can communicate with the port <c>Port</c> by sending and receiving messages. (In fact, any - process can send the messages to the port, but the messages from - the port always go to the port owner).</p> + process can send the messages to the port, but the port owner must + be identified in the message).</p> + <p>As of OTP-R16 messages sent to ports are delivered truly + asynchronously. The underlying implementation previously + delivered messages to ports synchronously. Message passing has + however always been documented as an asynchronous operation, so + this should not be an issue for an Erlang program communicating + with ports, unless false assumptions about ports has been made.</p> <p>Below, <c>Data</c> must be an I/O list. An I/O list is a binary or a (possibly deep) list of binaries or integers in the range 0..255.</p> @@ -127,8 +133,7 @@ <tcaption>Messages Received From a Port.</tcaption> </table> <p>Instead of sending and receiving messages, there are also a - number of BIFs that can be used. These can be called by any - process, not only the port owner.</p> + number of BIFs that can be used.</p> <table> <row> <cell align="left" valign="middle"><c>port_command(Port,Data)</c></cell> |