On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Nigel Tao<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 16:17, Puskar Naha<[email protected]> wrote: >> The IPC classes aren't involved in the WorkerPool, but I don't know what >> they're for either: >> http://code.google.com/p/gears/source/browse/trunk/gears/base/common/ipc_message_queue_win32.cc > > If I recall correctly, that particular IPC code was for an > experimental notifications Gears API that never got finished. It's not > related to Chromium IPC.
The IPC code is also used for edge cases where multiple iexplore.exe processes can run at one time. For example when a ManagedResourceStore instance updates, we send notifications to all MRS objects about the update. The notifications have to be sent over IPC in the case of MRS instances running in separate IE instances. - a
