In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Doug White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Jonas Bulow wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to build a preforked and threaded server. When it comes to
> > the threading part it seems that non-preemtive threads have a lot of
> > benefits if the server is a statefull-server.
> >
> > What I'm trying to say is that the server is not going to do a lot of
> > computation for each request. The server will simply update it's state
> > and respond about it's success.
>
> This reminds me of coroutines or userland select- or kqueue-based
> "threading." Coroutines is a bit more complex but a library is available.
> Select-based "threads" aren't too difficult to set up in C, you could use
> http://www.nightmare.com/medusa, a Python implementation, as a starting
> point.
Or use the very nice "eventlib" package from the ISC. It is
released as a part of BIND, and you can find it in FreeBSD's
"src/contrib/bind/lib/isc" directory (along with some other stuff).
John
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