[2670] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Kerberos NT source code
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Hornstein)
Mon Oct 27 02:43:57 1997
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "24 Oct 1997 18:11:54 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 02:43:15 -0500
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
>Shared memory could be used to address these problems too, though, and
>I'm not familiar enough with implementations of either to know the
>tradeoffs. But then you've got problems like not sharing file
>descriptors...
Can't most modern Unixes send file descriptors across Unix domain sockets?
(Whether or not that's easier than threads is debatable :-) ).
I think the use of threads can be non-optimal in many of their commonly
applied cases, _especially_ on uniprocessor machines.
--Ken
