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n |
A port is
usually owned and created by the
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receiving
process
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n |
The port is
destroyed when the receiver
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terminates
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n |
The OS creates
a mailbox on behalf of a
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process (which
becomes the owner)
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n |
The mailbox is
destroyed at the owner’s
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request or
when the owner terminates
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