[plug] POP goes the threading
Leon Brooks
leon at brooks.smileys.net
Thu May 18 18:44:07 WST 2000
Christian wrote:
> A guy I know wrote
> a full POP3 server that did all it's IO from a single process using
> select() -- no forking at all. Apparently it was hell fast compared
> with normal forking POP3 servers.
Maybe on Solaris or NT, unlikely on Linux - unless he also left most of
the brains out of his POP server. (-:
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