Ok now I understand what is happening, thanks for your answers guys.
________________________________ From: Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> To: ehsan enayati <ehsan_e...@yahoo.com> Cc: Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de>; "openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" <openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 11:27 AM Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] multi threading support Hi, On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:22:40AM -0700, ehsan enayati wrote: > I saw in the linux source code that it uses fork and pthread, i think that's > the way it handles multiple requests Neither. Fork() is used to, uh, fork other processes (for example to start scripts). pthread is not used at all - there was some experimental code that used multithreading to get crypto into its own thread, but that has been removed for 2.3 because it wasn't complete and didn't work. Multiple requests are just queued in a, uh, "work queue" - which is basically a glorified array of things-to-do - and then processed one after another. gert -- USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! //www.muc.de/~gert/ Gert Doering - Munich, Germany g...@greenie.muc.de fax: +49-89-35655025 g...@net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
