how does linux support domino?

how does linux support domino?

[Xiong Zhao]

hello.on linux we will see a new domino server process/thread is created for each
client.how does linux do this?does it use pthread?using fork or clone or someway 
else?what's the common way of linux to support apps like lotus domino that will
have lots of concurrent users which are served by seperate server process/thread?
regards

james

Re: how does linux support domino?

[Erik Mouw]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:59:52PM +0800, Xiong Zhao wrote:
> hello.on linux we will see a new domino server process/thread is
> created for each client.how does linux do this?does it use
> pthread?using fork or clone or someway else?

pthreads are modeled on top of the clone() system call.

> what's the common way of
> linux to support apps like lotus domino that will have lots of
> concurrent users which are served by seperate server process/thread?

Just go ahead and support it, I guess.


Erik

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Re: how does linux support domino?

[Jorge Nerin]

Xiong Zhao wrote:

> hello.on linux we will see a new domino server process/thread is created for each
> client.how does linux do this?does it use pthread?using fork or clone or someway 
> else?what's the common way of linux to support apps like lotus domino that will
> have lots of concurrent users which are served by seperate server process/thread?
> regards
> 
> james

Well, in Linux there is no separate concept of threads, so each thread
is a separate process with it's own PID and the PPID of the main thread.
In fact pthread_create() sits just on top of clone().

The way each program handles multiple conections is up to the program,
for example apache 1.3 and below does a fork(), mozilla does a
pthread_create(), BOA does a select() in only one process, and apache
2.0 and up does both a fork() and pthread_create().

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Jorge Nerin
<comandante@zaralinux.com>