Distributed programming

Claes Wikstrom klacke@REDACTED
Sun Apr 2 14:59:56 CEST 2006


Alex Arnon wrote:

> 
> Oh? I thought process location is abstract :)
> Seriously, though, why is this?
> 


Process location is abstract, i.e. the location
of te process is embedded in the pid and the user of
Pis doesn't have to care about wether the pid is local
or remote.

This doesn't apply to ports though, and a gen_tcp socket
is a port.


/klacke



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