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Re: [thrulay] select() vs. fork()

From: Huadong Liu <>
To: Daniel Schaffrath <>
Cc: thrulay users <>
Subject: Re: [thrulay] select() vs. fork()
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:59:41 -0400

Hi Daniel,

Two years ago about this time Stas wrote an excellent article that might answer your question at http://shlang.com/writing/threads-tasks.html.

Huadong

Dear Community,

I was wondering what might be the rational behind the design decision to have the client governed by a select() loop over several connections vs. the server to fork for each (control and data) connection. Or in other word, what's bad about the serving being only one process with a (big) select() loop.

Maybe you have any pointers?

Thank you in advance,
Daniel

select() vs. fork(), Daniel Schaffrath, 06/12/2007
- Re: [thrulay] select() vs. fork(), Huadong Liu, 06/12/2007

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