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- From: dingbat@diku.dk (Niels Skov Olsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
- Subject: Re: Inter-process comm. with OCCAM
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.145742.10474@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 14:57:42 GMT
- References: <1992Sep11.161809.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
- Sender: dingbat@rimfaxe.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
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- slaud@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
-
- > " Inter-process communication between procedures with OCCAM "
-
- > I am required to compare inter-process communications of programming
- >languages, and was told OCCAM implements this very well.
-
- I would suggest reading the following paper:
-
- "Communicating Sequential Processes"
- by C.A.R Hoare
- in Communications of The ACM, August 1978
-
- OCCAM's ipc mechanism is built upon, and virtually identical to CSP, as
- described in the classic paper by Hoare.
-
- Basically it's just synchronous communication over a channel, meaning
- that communication will happen when both the sending and the receiving
- processes are ready, and that either party waits if the other is not
- ready.
-
- Niels
-