Control.Concurrent.Network.Slave

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Description

Slave processes have a single connection towards the master for simplicity. Communication is done by using NVar variables similar to MVar in Concurrent.

Synopsis

Constructors

data NCContext Source

the NC Context

Constructors

NCC
Fields hdl :: MVar Handle

Functions

initSlave :: HostName -> PortID -> IO NCContext Source

Initialises a slave process returning the NC context.

slaveID :: NCContext -> IO Int Source

Returns the slave ID of the caller

numSlaves :: NCContext -> IO Int Source

Number of slaves

printMsg :: NCContext -> String -> IO ()Source

Prints a message on master