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diff --git a/docs/man/nng_pipe.5.adoc b/docs/man/nng_pipe.5.adoc index c951ecb2..920fb2c0 100644 --- a/docs/man/nng_pipe.5.adoc +++ b/docs/man/nng_pipe.5.adoc @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ = nng_pipe(5) // -// Copyright 2018 Staysail Systems, Inc. <info@staysail.tech> +// Copyright 2020 Staysail Systems, Inc. <info@staysail.tech> // Copyright 2018 Capitar IT Group BV <info@capitar.com> // // This document is supplied under the terms of the MIT License, a @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ typedef struct nng_pipe_s nng_pipe; == DESCRIPTION (((pipe)))(((connection))) -An `nng_pipe` is a handle to a "`pipe`", which can be thought of as a single +An `nng_pipe` is a handle to a pipe object, which can be thought of as a single connection. (In most cases this is actually the case -- the pipe is an abstraction for a single TCP or IPC connection.) @@ -43,12 +43,11 @@ source of a message is needed, or when more control is required over message delivery. Pipe objects are created by dialers (xref:nng_dialer.5.adoc[`nng_dialer`] objects) -and listeners (xref:nng_listener.5.adoc[`nng_listener`] objects), which can be -thought of as "`owning`" the pipe. +and listeners (xref:nng_listener.5.adoc[`nng_listener`] objects). Pipe objects may be destroyed by the xref:nng_pipe_close.3.adoc[`nng_pipe_close()`] function. -They are also closed when their "`owning`" dialer or listener is closed, +They are also closed when the dialer or listener that created them is closed, or when the remote peer closes the underlying connection. [[NNG_PIPE_INITIALIZER]] |