OpenBinder

OpenBinder is a system-level component architecture, designed to provide a richer high-level abstraction on top of traditional modern operating system services. The current implementation runs on Linux, but the code has run on a diverse variety of platforms, including BeOS, Windows, and PalmOS Cobalt.


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[Excerpted from Wikipedia]

OpenBinder^[1] is a system for interprocess communication. It was developed at Be Inc. and then Palm, Inc.^[2] and has more recently been used in theAndroid mobile phone platform developed by Google^[3].

OpenBinder allows processes to present interfaces which may be called by other threads. Each process maintains a thread pool which may be used to service such requests. OpenBinder takes care of reference counting, recursion back into the original thread, and of course the inter-process communication itself. On the Linux version of OpenBinder the communication itself is achieved using ioctls on a given filehandle, communicating with a kernel driver.

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