----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Bruni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 8:58 AM Subject: Re: OpenSSL: threading question
> > On Jan 6, 2004, at 12:47 AM, David Schwartz wrote: > > >> In most cases multi threads and only one SOCKET don't really get > >> along. > > > > I'm not sure why you'd say that. For TCP, reading and writing are > > totally > > independent. Using a pool of threads for I/O is quite common to protect > > against ambush (when an operation that shouldn't block unexpectedly > > does) or > > to take advantage of SMP machines. > > > > > > > Indeed, before the advent of threads one could (on unix anyway) handle > reading and writing of a single tcp connection via two separate > processes since child processes inherit all open descriptors of the > parent. > > [I suspect (based on the all-caps spelling of SOCKET and the sample > code provided earlier) that Mr. Giudicelli speaks from a Windows > perspective, which doesn't handle multiple processes very well, and > certainly does not abstract tcp sockets into simple file descriptors > the way unix does.] Indeed I was, Sherlock :) ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
