/** \ingroup msg_gos_functions
* \brief Executes a task and waits for its termination.
*
- * This function is used for describing the behavior of an agent. It
+ * This function is used for describing the behavior of a process. It
* takes only one parameter.
- * \param task a #m_task_t to execute on the location on which the
- agent is running.
+ * \param task a #m_task_t to execute on the location on which the process is running.
* \return #MSG_OK if the task was successfully completed, #MSG_TASK_CANCELED
* or #MSG_HOST_FAILURE otherwise
*/
/** \ingroup msg_gos_functions
* \brief Executes a parallel task and waits for its termination.
*
- * \param task a #m_task_t to execute on the location on which the agent is running.
+ * \param task a #m_task_t to execute on the location on which the process is running.
*
* \return #MSG_OK if the task was successfully completed, #MSG_TASK_CANCELED
* or #MSG_HOST_FAILURE otherwise
* \brief Put a task on a channel of an host and waits for the end of the
* transmission.
*
- * This function is used for describing the behavior of an agent. It
+ * This function is used for describing the behavior of a process. It
* takes three parameter.
* \param task a #m_task_t to send on another location. This task
will not be usable anymore when the function will return. There is
can be transfered iff it has been correctly created with
MSG_task_create().
* \param dest the destination of the message
- * \param channel the channel on which the agent should put this
+ * \param channel the channel on which the process should put this
task. This value has to be >=0 and < than the maximal number of
channels fixed with MSG_set_channel_number().
* \return #MSG_HOST_FAILURE if the host on which
* host (with a timeout on the waiting of the destination host) and
* waits for the end of the transmission.
*
- * This function is used for describing the behavior of an agent. It
+ * This function is used for describing the behavior of a process. It
* takes four parameter.
* \param task a #m_task_t to send on another location. This task
will not be usable anymore when the function will return. There is
can be transfered iff it has been correctly created with
MSG_task_create().
* \param dest the destination of the message
- * \param channel the channel on which the agent should put this
+ * \param channel the channel on which the process should put this
task. This value has to be >=0 and < than the maximal number of
channels fixed with MSG_set_channel_number().
* \param timeout the maximum time to wait for a task before giving
* \brief Test whether there is a pending communication on a channel, and who sent it.
*
* It takes one parameter.
- * \param channel the channel on which the agent should be
+ * \param channel the channel on which the process should be
listening. This value has to be >=0 and < than the maximal
number of channels fixed with MSG_set_channel_number().
* \return -1 if there is no pending communication and the PID of the process who sent it otherwise
* \brief Test whether there is a pending communication on a channel.
*
* It takes one parameter.
- * \param channel the channel on which the agent should be
+ * \param channel the channel on which the process should be
listening. This value has to be >=0 and < than the maximal
number of channels fixed with MSG_set_channel_number().
* \return 1 if there is a pending communication and 0 otherwise
channel and sent by \a host.
*
* It takes two parameters.
- * \param channel the channel on which the agent should be
+ * \param channel the channel on which the process should be
listening. This value has to be >=0 and < than the maximal
number of channels fixed with MSG_set_channel_number().
* \param host the host that is to be watched.
hold a task when this function will return. Thus \a task should not
be equal to \c NULL and \a *task should be equal to \c NULL. If one of
those two condition does not hold, there will be a warning message.
- * \param channel the channel on which the agent should be
+ * \param channel the channel on which the process should be
listening. This value has to be >=0 and < than the maximal
number of channels fixed with MSG_set_channel_number().
* \param host the host that is to be watched.
hold a task when this function will return. Thus \a task should not
be equal to \c NULL and \a *task should be equal to \c NULL. If one of
those two condition does not hold, there will be a warning message.
- * \param channel the channel on which the agent should be
+ * \param channel the channel on which the process should be
listening. This value has to be >=0 and < than the maximal
number of channels fixed with MSG_set_channel_number().
* \return a #MSG_error_t indicating whether the operation was successful (#MSG_OK), or why it failed otherwise.
hold a task when this function will return. Thus \a task should not
be equal to \c NULL and \a *task should be equal to \c NULL. If one of
those two condition does not hold, there will be a warning message.
- * \param channel the channel on which the agent should be
+ * \param channel the channel on which the process should be
listening. This value has to be >=0 and < than the maximal
number of channels fixed with MSG_set_channel_number().
* \param max_duration the maximum time to wait for a task before giving