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Re: GSS-APIv3 sketch

Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com> Thu, 12 November 2009 20:01 UTC

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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:42:51 -0600
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
To: Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke@SerNet.DE>
Subject: Re: GSS-APIv3 sketch
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 07:54:56PM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> Let me point out another thing: By using threads and a
> purely blocking API, you force everyone into threads. If you
> do it async, it is very easy to create blocking wrappers
> around the async calls which then can be used in threaded
> programs. The other way round is a lot harder.

That ship has sailed: Solaris 10 and up has a unified process model, and
it's a threaded process model.

Nico
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