"CS" == Christian Stueble stueble@amaunet.cs.uni-dortmund.de writes:
CS> what happens if IPC uses an invalid thread-id? Is the message although CS> forwarded to the subsystem's chief?
On MIPS the IPC will fail with "invalid destination". According to my reading of the manual, that is the expected behaviour. Delivery to a chief doesn't make sense, as the "nearest chief" is undefined for a non-existing thread.
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