Hmm, samba article raises interesting points.
Point 2 isn't valid though. According
to POSIX only the calling thread will
block, though again all systems don't
support pthreads.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Airlie [mailto:david.airlie at drua.ie]
> Sent: 09 February 2000 14:47
> To: Justin Mason
> Cc: Mel; Irish Linux Users Group
>> Just also on that forking/threading, why smbd is forked is at
>>http://cvs.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/samba/source/architecture.> doc?annotate=1.4
>> Dave.
>> >
> > --j.
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