[Users] modules API

[Ron Winacott]

On Wednesday 28 June 2006 09:26, Simon Morvan wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> Simple question : What is the "rank" passed to the per-child module
> initialization function ? And why is it sometimes negative ?

The rank tells you if the child process is a clone of a "worker" or one of 
the "special processes. From the sr_modules.h file:

/* Macros - used as rank in child_init function */
#define PROC_MAIN      0  /* Main ser process */
#define PROC_TIMER    -1  /* Timer attendant process */
#define PROC_FIFO     -2  /* FIFO attendant process */
#define PROC_TCP_MAIN -4  /* TCP main process */
#define PROC_UNIXSOCK -5  /* Unix domain socket server processes */

Then rank will go from 1-n depending on the number of listener processes you 
have. 

Hope this helps,
	ronw.

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