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Mach's IPC mechanism allows for getting access to a message's sequence number.

This can be used for serializing requests in a multithreaded environment.

GNU Mach Reference Manual: 4.2.6 Message Receive
GNU Mach Reference Manual: 4.3.6 Receive Rights

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Last edited 2009-05-18 14:44:06 UTC