Serializing event handling in a threaded system with no wait...

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2006-06-20

2006-06-20

Lao, Sue (Department: 2194)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual mac

Task management or control

Process scheduling

C719S318000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07065765

ABSTRACT:
Event handling in multinode data processing networks, in which data structures are shared between nodes and are subject to concurrent requests for access, is facilitated through the use of a separate small data structure (bit array or linked list) which permits an event handler to hand off the task of accessing the data structure to an event handler which is already accessing data from the same data structure. This eliminates the need for locking arrangements and/or the use of special coordinating event handlers.

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