X-Git-Url: http://info.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/gitweb/simgrid.git/blobdiff_plain/ddf4a32b4868d8cab7bd22f0b7b34bdd5b7dffad..b3b356352e87ae00a20f737c48e19b0c8413455a:/src/msg/msg_process.c
diff --git a/src/msg/msg_process.c b/src/msg/msg_process.c
index bad98f663e..257ff1e8f6 100644
--- a/src/msg/msg_process.c
+++ b/src/msg/msg_process.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (c) 2004-2014. The SimGrid Team.
+/* Copyright (c) 2004-2015. The SimGrid Team.
* All rights reserved. */
/* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -15,11 +15,9 @@ XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_SUBCATEGORY(msg_process, msg,
/** @addtogroup m_process_management
* \htmlonly \endhtmlonly
*
- * We need to simulate many independent scheduling decisions, so
- * the concept of process is at the heart of the
- * simulator. A process may be defined as a code, with
- * some private data, executing in a location.
- * \see msg_process_t
+ * Processes (#msg_process_t) are independent agents that can do stuff on their own. They are in charge of executing your code interacting with the simulated world.
+ * A process may be defined as a code with some private data.
+ * Processes must be located on hosts (#msg_host_t), and they exchange data by sending tasks (#msg_task_t) that are similar to envelops containing data.
*/
/******************************** Process ************************************/
@@ -55,14 +53,14 @@ void MSG_process_cleanup_from_SIMIX(smx_process_t smx_proc)
}
/* This function creates a MSG process. It has the prototype enforced by SIMIX_function_register_process_create */
-void MSG_process_create_from_SIMIX(smx_process_t* process, const char *name,
+smx_process_t MSG_process_create_from_SIMIX(const char *name,
xbt_main_func_t code, void *data,
const char *hostname, double kill_time,
int argc, char **argv,
xbt_dict_t properties, int auto_restart,
smx_process_t parent_process)
{
- msg_host_t host = MSG_get_host_by_name(hostname);
+ msg_host_t host = MSG_host_by_name(hostname);
msg_process_t p = MSG_process_create_with_environment(name, code, data,
host, argc, argv,
properties);
@@ -70,7 +68,7 @@ void MSG_process_create_from_SIMIX(smx_process_t* process, const char *name,
MSG_process_set_kill_time(p,kill_time);
MSG_process_auto_restart_set(p,auto_restart);
}
- *((msg_process_t*) process) = p;
+ return p;
}
/** \ingroup m_process_management
@@ -166,14 +164,12 @@ msg_process_t MSG_process_create_with_environment(const char *name,
simdata->data = data;
simdata->last_errno = MSG_OK;
- int future_simix_process_pid = SIMIX_process_get_maxpid();
- TRACE_msg_process_create(name, future_simix_process_pid, host);
-
/* Let's create the process: SIMIX may decide to start it right now,
* even before returning the flow control to us */
- simcall_process_create(&process, name, code, simdata, sg_host_name(host), -1,
+ process = simcall_process_create(name, code, simdata, sg_host_name(host), -1,
argc, argv, properties,0);
- xbt_assert(future_simix_process_pid == SIMIX_process_get_PID(process));
+
+ TRACE_msg_process_create(name, SIMIX_process_get_PID(process), host);
if (!process) {
/* Undo everything we have just changed */
@@ -243,7 +239,10 @@ void* MSG_process_get_data(msg_process_t process)
/* get from SIMIX the MSG process data, and then the user data */
simdata_process_t simdata = simcall_process_get_data(process);
- return simdata->data;
+ if (simdata)
+ return simdata->data;
+ else
+ return NULL;
}
/** \ingroup m_process_management