Data transfer and intermission between parent and child process

• US 7,139,832 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2001
• Issued: 11/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Kawamoto, Shinichi, Imaki, Tsuneyuki, Tarui, Toshiaki, Kameyama, Shin
• Primary Examiner(s): Dharia, Rupal
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shingles, Kristie D.
• Application Number:
  US09/940,506
• Publication Number:
  US 20020065934A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,910 Days
• Field of Search: 709/219, 709/237, 709/203, 718/104, 719/331, 370/313, 707/10, 717/164
• US Class Current: 709/237
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/544 Buffers; Shared memory; Pipes

Abstract

A data transfer method realizing a function similar to Unix'"'"'s FORK by the following operations: allowing a parent process on a server to issue a request for intermission of communication to a process on a client and allowing the process on the client to issue a report of completion of intermission; allowing the parent process to issue, to a child process created on the server and the process on the client, a request for establishment of a new communication line connection between them; and, if the parent process has received data from the process on the client before the establishment of the new connection, coping the data to the child process.

Claims

1. A data transfer method for processing system which allows both processes to be executed in a first data processor and in a second data processor to communicate with each other by direct data transfer between user spaces of the data processors, wherein

communication via a first virtual interface connection between a first process in the first data processor and a second process in the second data processor is taken over by a second virtual interface connection between a third process in the first data

processor and the second process in the second data processor, the method comprising the step of:

setting a flag if the first process receives data which is transmitted via the first virtual interface connection;

issuing, from the first process to the second process, a request for intermission of data transmission to the first process;

intermitting, in the second process, data transmission to the first process and replying from the second process to the first process an acknowledge of the request for intermission of data transmission;

after the acknowledge of the request is received in the first process, copying the data which is received in the first process to the third process;

establishing the second virtual interface connection between the third process and the second process in response to a reconnection request issued from the first process; and

taking over the communication from the first virtual interface connection to the second virtual interface connection to continue the communication.

2. The data transfer method as defined in claim 1, wherein said first process issues said reconnection request, after the copying of data to the third process is completed or it is confirmed from said flag that there is no data transmitted via the first virtual interface connection and received in the first process.

3. The data transfer method as defined in claim 1, wherein said first process issues said request for intermission of data transmission to the second process after the third process requests to take over the communication with the second process.