Re: Linus on Linux, Apache and Threads

Alex Belits (abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:10:42 -0700 (PDT)


On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Chuck Lever wrote:

> how does the event waiter thread determine whether there is a
> suitable/idle worker thread to awaken?

In my server (with processes instead of threads) subserver processes
talk to the main process through socket (the same one that is used for
requests and fd passing) or pipe (that is used for relaying if fd passing
is not used) or TCP socket (if subserver is on another box).

-- 
Alex

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