On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 03:36:45PM +0200, Axel-Stéphane SMORGRAV wrote: > Joe, > > Thanks for replying to my post. > > Isn't the AcceptMutex only used inside the parent process to serialise > the access to the accept(2) system call ? It's used in *children* to do that, yes. > Is your comment about cross-process mutex relevant for SSLMutex rather > than AcceptMutex , and would that mean that in your opinion although > it might be OK to use pthread for AcceptMutex it should be avoided in > the case of SSLMutex ? The same concerns apply to both equally. If the process crashes holding the SSLMutex then all processes which try to server SSL are liable to deadlock. > Would you have any idea of the performance implications of using fcntl > or flock over sysvsem or pthread ? No idea on Solaris, sorry, you'd have to benchmark this. Regards, joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx