Re: BAST in RAC

Mladen:

Interrupt is a generic word and it can be used anywhere in a relative
context.  CPU hardware devices may have something called interrupt and
I am least bothered about that while speaking in RAC related context. 
In simple terms SAST/BAST are system traps sent to the owning
processes  and it is like an interrupt to that process.  If you think
that INTERRUPT should only be used to CPU/hardware decice context, you
may want to go ahead and use that only for that purposes..

> Your description of AST is what is scientifically known as mumbo-jumbo
> (Oracle* Mumbo-Jumbo 10g) and makes no sense whatsoever. RAC processes work
> over TCP sockets and do not "deliver interrupts". Processors and
> hardware devices
> deliver interrupts. Sockets deliver packets.  If you want to provide
> internal information,
> please do  it properly and not in a sloppy and misleading way using
> incorrect and undefined terminology. This is  the same comment that I've
> sent in private email to Steve Adams when
> he was talking about "ASTs" in his internals book.

What ever information I have provided is 100% correct in RAC related
context. If some one else is relating that with VMS or punched cards
then I can not help :)



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