Chris Peel <chris.gsi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My question is - how does the reply message _actually_ get back to
BMessenger->SendMessage()? Is it:
(a) by copying memory between processes
Generally, messaging works using ports. A BMessenger combines the
target
port, plus its team as well as a target token that identifies a
specific handler.
The synchronous reply mechanism just uses one of a cached list of
reply
ports that are only used for this case. See src/kits/app/Message.cpp
line 2177ff.
While messaging uses ports (and with them, memory copies between
processes), the actual data might be sent using an area after some
threshold is reached (IIRC 64K).
Bye,
Axel.
