Ensuring Thread Affinity for Interprocess Communication in a Managed Code Environment

A computer-implemented method for enabling interprocess communications and thread affinity for a process executing on a computer system, the computer-implemented method comprising:

• receiving, via an interprocess communication mechanism executing on a thread of the process, an interprocess message from an object executing external to a process boundary of said process;
• sending said interprocess message to a destination object in said process;
• and
• ensuring that said interprocess message is executed on said same thread of said process,
• whereby cross-process thread affinity with respect to the interprocess message is achieved.

A computer-implemented method for enabling interprocess communications and thread reentrancy for a process executing on a computer system, the computer-implemented method comprising:

• receiving, via an interprocess communication mechanism executing on a thread of the process, an interprocess message from an object executing external to a process boundary of said process, wherein said interprocess communication mechanism is able to correctly keep track of a logical thread of executions;
• determining whether said interprocess message is part of said logical thread of executions;
• and
• when said interprocess message is part of said logical thread of executions, ensuring that said interprocess message is executed on said same thread of said process,
• whereby reentrancy with respect to the interprocess message is achieved.