Distributed pipes and fifos in a multiprocessor

Details Distributed pipes and fifos in a multiprocessor Distributed pipes and fifos in a multiprocessor

1997-10-03

1999-10-19

Follansbee, John A.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Computer-to-computer data routing

Least weight routing

709304, 709201, 712 28, G06F 15163

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active

059681349

ABSTRACT:
A multiprocessor that includes a virtual file system providing a file system interface to user application code. This interface allows users to access files in many types of file systems in a consistent, file system-independent manner. In a preferred embodiment, the higher interface of the file system is the Posix file system interface, though it can be any file system interface supporting the capabilities required by a user process. The Posix file system supports regular files, pipes, fifos and special files.
A pipe server, a pipe library and a name server together implement the fifo semantics required by the Posix standard for Posix processes. The present invention provides these fifo capabilities to any process which uses the Posix interfaces.

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