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# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
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# Copyright (C) YEAR The Rust Project Developers
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# This file is distributed under the same license as the Rust package.
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# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
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"Project-Id-Version: Rust 0.8-pre\n"
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"POT-Creation-Date: 2013-08-08 22:27+0900\n"
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"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
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"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
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"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
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"Language: \n"
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"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
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"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
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"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
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#: doc/rust.md:4 doc/rustpkg.md:4 doc/tutorial.md:4
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msgid "# Introduction"
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msgstr ""
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msgid "# } ~~~~"
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msgstr ""
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msgid "% Rust Tasks and Communication Tutorial"
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msgstr ""
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msgid ""
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"Rust provides safe concurrency through a combination of lightweight, memory-"
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"isolated tasks and message passing. This tutorial will describe the "
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"concurrency model in Rust, how it relates to the Rust type system, and "
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"introduce the fundamental library abstractions for constructing concurrent "
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"programs."
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msgid ""
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"Rust tasks are not the same as traditional threads: rather, they are "
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"considered _green threads_, lightweight units of execution that the Rust "
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"runtime schedules cooperatively onto a small number of operating system "
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"threads. On a multi-core system Rust tasks will be scheduled in parallel by "
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"default. Because tasks are significantly cheaper to create than traditional "
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"threads, Rust can create hundreds of thousands of concurrent tasks on a "
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"typical 32-bit system. In general, all Rust code executes inside a task, "
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"including the `main` function."
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msgstr ""
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msgid ""
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"In order to make efficient use of memory Rust tasks have dynamically sized "
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"stacks. A task begins its life with a small amount of stack space "
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"(currently in the low thousands of bytes, depending on platform), and "
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"acquires more stack as needed. Unlike in languages such as C, a Rust task "
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"cannot accidentally write to memory beyond the end of the stack, causing "
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"crashes or worse."
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msgstr ""
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msgid ""
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"Tasks provide failure isolation and recovery. When a fatal error occurs in "
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"Rust code as a result of an explicit call to `fail!()`, an assertion "
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"failure, or another invalid operation, the runtime system destroys the "
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"entire task. Unlike in languages such as Java and C++, there is no way to "
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"`catch` an exception. Instead, tasks may monitor each other for failure."
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msgstr ""
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msgid ""
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"Tasks use Rust's type system to provide strong memory safety guarantees. In "
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"particular, the type system guarantees that tasks cannot share mutable state "
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"with each other. Tasks communicate with each other by transferring _owned_ "
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"data through the global _exchange heap_."
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msgstr ""
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msgid "## A note about the libraries"
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msgstr ""
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msgid ""
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"While Rust's type system provides the building blocks needed for safe and "
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"efficient tasks, all of the task functionality itself is implemented in the "
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"standard and extra libraries, which are still under development and do not "
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"always present a consistent or complete interface."
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msgstr ""
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msgid ""
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"For your reference, these are the standard modules involved in Rust "
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"concurrency at this writing:"
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Bullet: '* '
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msgid "[`std::task`] - All code relating to tasks and task scheduling,"
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msgstr ""
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msgid "[`std::comm`] - The message passing interface,"
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msgstr ""
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msgid "[`std::pipes`] - The underlying messaging infrastructure,"
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msgstr ""
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msgid "[`extra::comm`] - Additional messaging types based on `std::pipes`,"
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msgstr ""
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msgid "[`extra::sync`] - More exotic synchronization tools, including locks,"
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msgid ""
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"[`extra::arc`] - The Arc (atomically reference counted) type, for safely "
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"sharing immutable data,"
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msgstr ""
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msgid ""
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"[`extra::future`] - A type representing values that may be computed "
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"concurrently and retrieved at a later time."
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msgstr ""
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msgid ""
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"[`std::task`]: std/task.html [`std::comm`]: std/comm.html [`std::pipes`]: "
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"std/pipes.html [`extra::comm`]: extra/comm.html [`extra::sync`]: extra/sync."
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"html [`extra::arc`]: extra/arc.html [`extra::future`]: extra/future.html"
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msgstr ""
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msgid "# Basics"
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msgstr ""
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msgid ""
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"The programming interface for creating and managing tasks lives in the "
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"`task` module of the `std` library, and is thus available to all Rust code "
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"by default. At its simplest, creating a task is a matter of calling the "
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"`spawn` function with a closure argument. `spawn` executes the closure in "
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"the new task."
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msgstr ""
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msgid "~~~~ # use std::io::println; # use std::task::spawn;"
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msgstr ""
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msgid ""
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"// Print something profound in a different task using a named function fn "
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"print_message() { println(\"I am running in a different task!\"); } "
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"spawn(print_message);"
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msgstr ""
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msgid ""
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"// Print something more profound in a different task using a lambda "
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"expression spawn( || println(\"I am also running in a different task!\") );"
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msgstr ""
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#, no-wrap
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"// The canonical way to spawn is using `do` notation\n"
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"do spawn {\n"
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" println(\"I too am running in a different task!\");\n"
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"}\n"
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"~~~~\n"
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msgstr ""
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"In Rust, there is nothing special about creating tasks: a task is not a "
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"concept that appears in the language semantics. Instead, Rust's type system "
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"provides all the tools necessary to implement safe concurrency: "
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"particularly, _owned types_. The language leaves the implementation details "
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"to the standard library."
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"The `spawn` function has a very simple type signature: `fn spawn(f: ~fn())`. "
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"Because it accepts only owned closures, and owned closures contain only "
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"owned data, `spawn` can safely move the entire closure and all its "
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"associated state into an entirely different task for execution. Like any "
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"closure, the function passed to `spawn` may capture an environment that it "
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"carries across tasks."
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"~~~ # use std::io::println; # use std::task::spawn; # fn "
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"generate_task_number() -> int { 0 } // Generate some state locally let "
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"child_task_number = generate_task_number();"
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msgstr ""
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#, no-wrap
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msgid ""
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"do spawn {\n"
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" // Capture it in the remote task\n"
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" println(fmt!(\"I am child number %d\", child_task_number));\n"
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"}\n"
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"~~~\n"
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"By default, the scheduler multiplexes tasks across the available cores, "
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"running in parallel. Thus, on a multicore machine, running the following "
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"code should interleave the output in vaguely random order."
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msgid "~~~ # use std::io::print; # use std::task::spawn;"
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msgstr ""
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"for child_task_number in range(0, 20) {\n"
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" do spawn {\n"
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" print(fmt!(\"I am child number %d\\n\", child_task_number));\n"
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" }\n"
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"Now that we have spawned a new task, it would be nice if we could "
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"communicate with it. Recall that Rust does not have shared mutable state, so "
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"one task may not manipulate variables owned by another task. Instead we use "
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"*pipes*."
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"for receiving messages. Pipes are low-level communication building-blocks "
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"and so come in a variety of forms, each one appropriate for a different use "
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"case. In what follows, we cover the most commonly used varieties."
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"The simplest way to create a pipe is to use the `pipes::stream` function to "
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"create a `(Port, Chan)` pair. In Rust parlance, a *channel* is a sending "
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"endpoint of a pipe, and a *port* is the receiving endpoint. Consider the "
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"following example of calculating two results concurrently:"
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msgid "let (port, chan): (Port<int>, Chan<int>) = stream();"
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"do spawn || {\n"
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" let result = some_expensive_computation();\n"
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"some_other_expensive_computation(); let result = port.recv(); # fn "
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"some_expensive_computation() -> int { 42 } # fn "
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"some_other_expensive_computation() {} ~~~~"
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"Let's examine this example in detail. First, the `let` statement creates a "
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"stream for sending and receiving integers (the left-hand side of the `let`, "
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"# fn some_expensive_computation() -> int { 42 }\n"
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"task implicitly: the closure captures `chan` in its environment. Both `Chan` "
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"and `Port` are sendable types and may be captured into tasks or otherwise "
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"referred to as an *affine* or *linear* type). Unlike with `Chan`, though, "
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"multiple tasks to send data to a single port. Between `spawn`, `stream` and "
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msgid ""
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"To see how `DuplexStream()` works, we will create a child task that "
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"repeatedly receives a `uint` message, converts it to a string, and sends the "
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"string in response. The child terminates when it receives `0`. Here is the "
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"function that implements the child task:"
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#: doc/tutorial-tasks.md:606
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#, no-wrap
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msgid ""
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"~~~{.xfail-test .linked-failure}\n"
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"# use extra::comm::DuplexStream;\n"
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"# use std::uint;\n"
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"fn stringifier(channel: &DuplexStream<~str, uint>) {\n"
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" let mut value: uint;\n"
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" loop {\n"
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" value = channel.recv();\n"
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" channel.send(uint::to_str(value));\n"
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" if value == 0 { break; }\n"
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" }\n"
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"}\n"
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"~~~~\n"
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msgstr ""
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msgid ""
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"The implementation of `DuplexStream` supports both sending and receiving. "
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"The `stringifier` function takes a `DuplexStream` that can send strings (the "
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"first type parameter) and receive `uint` messages (the second type "
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"parameter). The body itself simply loops, reading from the channel and then "
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"sending its response back. The actual response itself is simply the "
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"stringified version of the received value, `uint::to_str(value)`."
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msgstr ""
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msgid "Here is the code for the parent task:"
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msgstr ""
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#, no-wrap
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msgid ""
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"~~~{.xfail-test .linked-failure}\n"
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"# use std::task::spawn;\n"
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"# use std::uint;\n"
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"# use extra::comm::DuplexStream;\n"
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"# fn stringifier(channel: &DuplexStream<~str, uint>) {\n"
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"# let mut value: uint;\n"
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"# loop {\n"
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"# value = channel.recv();\n"
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"# channel.send(uint::to_str(value));\n"
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"# if value == 0u { break; }\n"
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"# }\n"
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"# }\n"
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"# fn main() {\n"
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msgstr ""
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msgid "let (from_child, to_child) = DuplexStream();"
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msgstr ""
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#, no-wrap
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msgid ""
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"do spawn {\n"
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" stringifier(&to_child);\n"
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"};\n"
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msgstr ""
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msgid "from_child.send(22); assert!(from_child.recv() == ~\"22\");"
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msgstr ""
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msgid "from_child.send(23); from_child.send(0);"
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msgstr ""
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msgid ""
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"assert!(from_child.recv() == ~\"23\"); assert!(from_child.recv() == ~\"0\");"
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msgstr ""
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#: doc/tutorial-tasks.md:652
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msgid ""
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"The parent task first calls `DuplexStream` to create a pair of bidirectional "
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"endpoints. It then uses `task::spawn` to create the child task, which "
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"captures one end of the communication channel. As a result, both parent and "
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"child can send and receive data to and from the other."
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msgstr ""
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