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Date:      Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:31:31 +1100 (EST)
From:      John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        stesin@gu.net (Andrew Stesin)
Cc:        michaelh@cet.co.jp, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Programming technique for non-forking servers?
Message-ID:  <199611132231.JAA18214@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961113162044.14098B-100000@creator.gu.kiev.ua> from Andrew Stesin at "Nov 13, 96 05:03:40 pm"

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Andrew Stesin wrote:
> 	But I have an impression that there's easier
> 	to implement locking of shared memory and file
> 	resources inside a single-process server than
> 	with some kind of IPC.

Sounds like a perfect application for POSIX threads. The initial thread
accepts incoming connections, then creates a worker thread for each
connection. We do our shared memory servers that way, however, we
still use SysV shared memory.

Regards,

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