- From: John Stracke <francis@ecal.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 18:40:25 +0000
- To: "Http-Wg@Hplb. Hpl. Hp. Com" <http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Ben Laurie wrote: > Scott Lawrence wrote: > > In any event, separate ports are orthogonal to separate processes; one does > > not imply or require the other. > > I think the point is the reverse one: a single port requires a single > process (or at least a family of related processes). I cannot run two > different pieces of software on one port _and_ get reasonable > performance It's possible on most Unices, where you can pass file descriptors from one process to another. They need to cooperate, though, and the receiving process has to trust the sending process not to play man-in-the-middle games. -- /=============================================================\ |John Stracke | My opinions are my own | S/MIME & HTML OK | |francis@ecal.com|============================================| |Chief Scientist | NT's lack of reliability is only surpassed | |eCal Corp. | by its lack of scalability. -- John Kirch | \=============================================================/
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