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| author | Henrik Tjäder <henrik@grepit.se> | 2021-12-16 11:54:13 +0100 |
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| committer | Henrik Tjäder <henrik@grepit.se> | 2021-12-19 01:33:15 +0100 |
| commit | c55016f4b237a9f25e5a0d86b42dc3ff39bf69b7 (patch) | |
| tree | 490a763177bcba3145047ec3510d0145bea6ac4a /book/en/src/by-example/message_passing.md | |
| parent | 2ac0e1b29ddbe4fdc4e9b67b486eeb69a106e9c6 (diff) | |
Docs: By-example App priorities and message passing
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diff --git a/book/en/src/by-example/message_passing.md b/book/en/src/by-example/message_passing.md index b80ae03..0dc8f85 100644 --- a/book/en/src/by-example/message_passing.md +++ b/book/en/src/by-example/message_passing.md @@ -1,8 +1,14 @@ # Message passing & capacity -Software tasks have support for message passing, this means that they can be spawned with an argument -as `foo::spawn(1)` which will run the task `foo` with the argument `1`. The number of arguments is not -limited and is exemplified in the following: +Software tasks support message passing, this means that software tasks can be spawned +with an argument: `foo::spawn(1)` which will run the task `foo` with the argument `1`. + +Capacity sets the size of the spawn queue for the task, if not specified capacity defaults to 1. + +In the example below, the capacity of task `foo` is `3`, allowing three simultaneous +pending spawns of `foo`. Exceeding this capacity is an `Error`. + +The number of arguments to a task is not limited: ``` rust {{#include ../../../../examples/message_passing.rs}} |
