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authorMartin Sustrik <sustrik@250bpm.com>2010-11-05 17:39:51 +0100
committerMartin Sustrik <sustrik@250bpm.com>2010-11-05 17:39:51 +0100
commit9da84a5239e5356e34d872c2b5af1d19b9c7eb4f (patch)
tree62267a898b0890dc21425cf4120f690a8083877d /src/io_thread.hpp
parent9cfdb441f45057c7106a101835d65164fce9470a (diff)
signaler renamed to mailbox
For historical reasons queue to transfer commands between threads was called 'signaler'. Given that it was used to pass commands rather than signals it was renamed to 'mailbox', see Erlang mailboxes. Signed-off-by: Martin Sustrik <sustrik@250bpm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/io_thread.hpp')
-rw-r--r--src/io_thread.hpp15
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/io_thread.hpp b/src/io_thread.hpp
index a0704fc..b01eecb 100644
--- a/src/io_thread.hpp
+++ b/src/io_thread.hpp
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
#include "object.hpp"
#include "poller.hpp"
#include "i_poll_events.hpp"
-#include "signaler.hpp"
+#include "mailbox.hpp"
namespace zmq
{
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ namespace zmq
// Ask underlying thread to stop.
void stop ();
- // Returns signaler associated with this I/O thread.
- signaler_t *get_signaler ();
+ // Returns mailbox associated with this I/O thread.
+ mailbox_t *get_mailbox ();
// i_poll_events implementation.
void in_event ();
@@ -69,12 +69,11 @@ namespace zmq
private:
- // Poll thread gets notifications about incoming commands using
- // this signaler.
- signaler_t signaler;
+ // I/O thread accesses incoming commands via this mailbox.
+ mailbox_t mailbox;
- // Handle associated with signaler's file descriptor.
- poller_t::handle_t signaler_handle;
+ // Handle associated with mailbox' file descriptor.
+ poller_t::handle_t mailbox_handle;
// I/O multiplexing is performed using a poller object.
poller_t *poller;