Shijithlal wrote:
> I am creating a Unix based application which consist of a TCP Server
> part. In most of the examples I looked at contains the usage of
> "fork()" when a new client request received at the server side. May I
> can use thread instaed of this fork. If possible which one is more
> better and why?.
>
> Actually I am develping the application in Linux and I want to port
> the application to other Unix flavours.
>
> Please comment your suggestions nad opinions..
One easy way would be to use something like Dan Bernstein's tcpserver to
manage your connections.
Fork is easy to do but make sure you clean up after a process or you'll
end up leaving copies of that binary all over the memory and slowly your
system starts crawling
Ditto with threads - close an open thread when you are done
suresh
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