Sure, it can be done. And it wouldn't be all that difficult either. The performance would be pretty bad though.
Bill > I'm a newcomer to Apache, so please excuse if this is an inappropriate > question for any reason. I have looked over the Apache 2.0.28 sources > (but not Apache source for earlier versions). > > My question is whether it is possible to construct an MPM for Windows > that operates a la the UNIX-specific "prefork" MPM; that is, does its work > by spawning > multiple processes with just one thread per process. It appears that the > sole MPM for Windows, > "winnt", creates many threads in the child process. > > The reason for desiring multiple processes and *not* multiple > threads-per-process > might be (for example) if one is also adding a module that calls into > non-thread-safe libraries. > > Are there fundamental issues with Windows that preclude this, or has such an > MPM > just not been built yet? > > Thanks for any information or pointers. > > Richard Title > Rational Software >
