Re: NCSA httpd server and 1.3.8X kernels

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@smurf.noris.de)
Wed, 10 Apr 1996 14:56:24 +0100

In linux.dev.kernel, article <Pine.LNX.3.91.960408111500.7049I-100000@l=
inux.cs.Helsinki.FI>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi> writes:
>=20
> Apache seems to do the pre-forking the _right_ way, ie not having jus=
t=20
> one listener that then gives out the requests to the others, but havi=
ng all=20
> the servers listen to the port, and then the one that gets there firs=
t=20
> gets to serve it too. No fd passing, no overhead, no stupidity.
>=20
Seems that certain other OSes got royally confused when a program decid=
ed
to fork before listen()ing. Usually, i.e. without forking, you can't do
that (the bind() call will fail).

> In short, it seems everybody should use apache.
>=20
_That_ goes without saying. ;-)

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