Ocamlnet 4 Reference Manual : Netplex_types.parallelizer

# Class type Netplex_types.parallelizer

    class type parallelizer = object .. end

    method ptype : parallelization_type

    method init : unit -> unit

Initializes the main process for usage with this parallelizer. This method must not be called outside the internal Netplex implementation!

    method start_thread : (par_thread -> unit) ->
           Unix.file_descr list ->
           Unix.file_descr list ->
           string -> logger -> par_thread

`start_thread f l_close l_share name logger`: Starts a new thread or process and calls `f thread` in that context. Before this is done, file descriptors are closed, controlled by the parameters `l_close` and `l_share`. The descriptors in `l_close` are always closed. The descriptors in `l_share` are not closed. The implementation of the parallelizer is free to close a reasonable set of descriptors, and `l_close` is the minimum, and `all - l_share` is the maximum.

There is no way to check when the thread terminates.

It is allowed that the `par_thread` object passed to `f` is a different object as the returned `par_thread` object.

    method create_mem_mutex : unit -> (unit -> unit) * (unit -> unit)

`let lock, unlock = par#create_mem_locker()`: Creates a mutex that is sufficient to protect process memory from uncoordinated access. The function `lock` obtains the lock, and `unlock` releases it.

    method current_sys_id : [ `Process of int | `Thread of int ]

Returns the system-dependent thread identifier of the caller