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diff --git a/doc/pseudo_ipc b/doc/pseudo_ipc index 150a43e..0892bb7 100644 --- a/doc/pseudo_ipc +++ b/doc/pseudo_ipc @@ -35,16 +35,17 @@ is not thread-safe; this is part of (but not all of) the reason that there's mutex stuff in the wrappers. (The other part is the "antimagic" being able to blow things up.) -type is one of PING, OP, SHUTDOWN, ACK, or NAK. The client only sends PING or -OP. The server should always send ACK. When run with '-S', the pseudo -program runs as a client, sending a SHUTDOWN message to a server -- but only -if it can find one, it does not start a new one. In this case, the server -could respond with a NAK, in which case it sends a message in which "path" -is a list of space-separated PIDs of currently-living clients, for the program -to print out in an error message. The server will not shut down while there -are living clients. (The request, though, causes it to shut down immediately -when there are no more clients, rather than waiting for the timeout -period.) +type is one of PING, OP, FASTOP, SHUTDOWN, ACK, or NAK. The client +only sends PING, OP, or FASTOP. FASTOP takes no response, otherwise the +server should always send ACK. When run with '-S', the pseudo program +runs as a client, sending a SHUTDOWN message to a server -- but only if +it can find one, it does not start a new one. In this case, the server +could respond with a NAK, in which case it sends a message in which +"path" is a list of space-separated PIDs of currently-living clients, +for the program to print out in an error message. The server will +not shut down while there are living clients. (The request, though, +causes it to shut down immediately when there are no more clients, +rather than waiting for the timeout period.) result is the result of a particular operation. It applies only in replies to OP messages. |