Documentation/technical/data_structures.txt | 10 ++++------ diff --git a/Documentation/technical/data_structures.txt b/Documentation/technical/data_structures.txt index 8776a67b969500db69bd858ef9e7da214f7d0566..4dcf9ce609be486965076f0817b9981070aafa1a 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/data_structures.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/data_structures.txt @@ -222,10 +222,8 @@ This is currently a singleton, but it is associated with a given PublicInbox::Config which may be instantiated more than once in the future. -* PublicInbox::ParentPipe - - Per-worker process class to detect shutdown of master process. - This is not used if using -W0 to disable worker processes - in public-inbox-httpd or public-inbox-nntpd. +* PublicInbox::EOFpipe - This is a per-worker singleton. + Used throughout to trigger a callback when a pipe(7) is closed. + This is frequently used to portably detect process exit without + relying on a catch-all waitpid(-1, ...) call.