On Apr 6, 2006, at 6:37 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> Why can't the TCPMUX listener just bind the correct application to
> the TCB
> (after figuring out what the appropriate application is), and then
> forget
> about the connection, leaving it entirely to the application to
> deal with?
> All packets which belong to that connection will automatically go
> to that
> TCB, and thence to the application, with no second layer of demux
> needed.
> Am I missing something?
On BSD and Solaris you can just pass the file descriptor from the new
connection to the already running server.
Similar tricks are possible on most other systems, including Windows and Linux.
The details vary somewhat depending on platform but they are close enough that
basically the same code can be used across most common platforms.
Ned
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