BIND child forks

Simon Waters Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk
Wed Aug 7 02:45:52 UTC 2002


Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:
> 
>         I would say that it ships with a broken threads implementation
>         that application writers have to hack around.  The fact
>         that there are multiple entries in the process table is a
>         artifact of that brokeness.

Although to be fair to Linux, Linus, Alan and friends have
deliberately declined to modify it, despite being sent patches,
because they regard the Posix thread model to be, if not broken
by design, broken in every implementation so far sent to them.

http://tldp.org/FAQ/Threads-FAQ/Comparison.html


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