It is just easier and less expensive to operate a second thread since it will be tightly integrated with the threads spawned to handle requests. I can run a second process and use IPC if it is not possible to spawn another thread separate from requests.
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Alan DeKok <[email protected]>wrote: > James Devine wrote: > > Is it possible for me to spin off my own thread to do background work > > separate from individual requests in a module? > > No. > > Why would you do that? The OS already supports multiple processes. > Just run another process. > > The RADIUS server is about doing RADIUS. It reads packets, processes > them, and responds to packets. There are *no* threads except ones > processing packets. There are *no* timer events, except those related > to processing packets. > > Alan DeKok. > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See > http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html >
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