On 27/10/2015 12:01, Eric Dumazet wrote:

Are non multi threaded applications considered well written ?

listener = socket(...);
bind(listener, ...);
listen(fd, 10000);
Loop 1 10
   if (fork() == 0)
     do_accept(listener)

Now if a child does a close(listener), or is killed, you propose that it
does an implicit shutdown() and all other children no longer can
accept() ?

No, of course not. I made it quite clear I was talking about MT programs.

Surely you did not gave all details on how it is really working.

In the case of Hadoop, it works the way I describe.

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Alan Burlison
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