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From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
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On Mon, 8 May 1995, Network Coordinator wrote:
> 
> Question here - Isn't the CERN httpd server [in standalone mode] an 
> on-demand forker?

    Yes.  So are the Apache, WN and pre-1.4 NCSA servers.  I needed a
name for servers which forked off a new process for each incoming
request, and just "forking server" was too easily confused with
"pre-forking server", so I called them "demand forking".  Dunno if
that's the correct term or not, but I'm sticking with it.  ;-)
-- 
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org