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| author | Bryan Tan <techniux@gmail.com> | 2017-03-30 23:27:09 -0700 |
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| committer | Bryan Tan <techniux@gmail.com> | 2017-03-30 23:28:15 -0700 |
| commit | 5a6ebdfcda149fdf3093003bceacbb2e0a1682ab (patch) | |
| tree | 574999443460fc1a908085b8e23a83c143729785 /src/libstd/sync/mpsc | |
| parent | 5c94997b6b1cca3e65ecfc5ba40c033d6838019b (diff) | |
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Add links to std::sync::mpsc docs #29377
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| -rw-r--r-- | src/libstd/sync/mpsc/mod.rs | 40 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstd/sync/mpsc/mod.rs b/src/libstd/sync/mpsc/mod.rs index 71dd94161c0..288a589e589 100644 --- a/src/libstd/sync/mpsc/mod.rs +++ b/src/libstd/sync/mpsc/mod.rs @@ -13,40 +13,50 @@ //! This module provides message-based communication over channels, concretely //! defined among three types: //! -//! * `Sender` -//! * `SyncSender` -//! * `Receiver` +//! * [`Sender`] +//! * [`SyncSender`] +//! * [`Receiver`] //! -//! A `Sender` or `SyncSender` is used to send data to a `Receiver`. Both +//! A [`Sender`] or [`SyncSender`] is used to send data to a [`Receiver`]. Both //! senders are clone-able (multi-producer) such that many threads can send //! simultaneously to one receiver (single-consumer). //! //! These channels come in two flavors: //! -//! 1. An asynchronous, infinitely buffered channel. The `channel()` function +//! 1. An asynchronous, infinitely buffered channel. The [`channel()`] function //! will return a `(Sender, Receiver)` tuple where all sends will be //! **asynchronous** (they never block). The channel conceptually has an //! infinite buffer. //! -//! 2. A synchronous, bounded channel. The `sync_channel()` function will return -//! a `(SyncSender, Receiver)` tuple where the storage for pending messages -//! is a pre-allocated buffer of a fixed size. All sends will be +//! 2. A synchronous, bounded channel. The [`sync_channel()`] function will +//! return a `(SyncSender, Receiver)` tuple where the storage for pending +//! messages is a pre-allocated buffer of a fixed size. All sends will be //! **synchronous** by blocking until there is buffer space available. Note -//! that a bound of 0 is allowed, causing the channel to become a -//! "rendezvous" channel where each sender atomically hands off a message to -//! a receiver. +//! that a bound of 0 is allowed, causing the channel to become a "rendezvous" +//! channel where each sender atomically hands off a message to a receiver. +//! +//! [`Sender`]: ../../../std/sync/mpsc/struct.Sender.html +//! [`SyncSender`]: ../../../std/sync/mpsc/struct.SyncSender.html +//! [`Receiver`]: ../../../std/sync/mpsc/struct.Receiver.html +//! [`send`]: ../../../std/sync/mpsc/struct.Sender.html#method.send +//! [`channel()`]: ../../../std/sync/mpsc/fn.channel.html +//! [`sync_channel()`]: ../../../std/sync/mpsc/fn.sync_channel.html //! //! ## Disconnection //! -//! The send and receive operations on channels will all return a `Result` +//! The send and receive operations on channels will all return a [`Result`] //! indicating whether the operation succeeded or not. An unsuccessful operation //! is normally indicative of the other half of a channel having "hung up" by //! being dropped in its corresponding thread. //! //! Once half of a channel has been deallocated, most operations can no longer -//! continue to make progress, so `Err` will be returned. Many applications will -//! continue to `unwrap()` the results returned from this module, instigating a -//! propagation of failure among threads if one unexpectedly dies. +//! continue to make progress, so [`Err`] will be returned. Many applications +//! will continue to [`unwrap()`] the results returned from this module, +//! instigating a propagation of failure among threads if one unexpectedly dies. +//! +//! [`Result`]: ../../../std/result/enum.Result.html +//! [`Err`]: ../../../std/result/enum.Result.html#variant.Err +//! [`unwrap()`]: ../../../std/result/enum.Result.html#method.unwrap //! //! # Examples //! |
