ParentPipe no longer exists and was replaced by the more
flexible EOFpipe.
---
 Documentation/technical/data_structures.txt | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/data_structures.txt 
b/Documentation/technical/data_structures.txt
index 8776a67b..4dcf9ce6 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/data_structures.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/data_structures.txt
@@ -222,10 +222,8 @@ daemon classes
   given PublicInbox::Config which may be instantiated more than
   once in the future.
 
-* PublicInbox::ParentPipe
+* PublicInbox::EOFpipe
 
-  Per-worker process class to detect shutdown of master process.
-  This is not used if using -W0 to disable worker processes
-  in public-inbox-httpd or public-inbox-nntpd.
-
-  This is a per-worker singleton.
+  Used throughout to trigger a callback when a pipe(7) is closed.
+  This is frequently used to portably detect process exit without
+  relying on a catch-all waitpid(-1, ...) call.
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