Multi-Threaded Server

Greetings,

I have an environment that is client/server. On the client system I will have a process that will talk to a process on the server via sockets. On the server I would like to have a daemon that listens to the port number and when the request comes in it will pass it off to another process. The trick is that the process is not forked (child) but one of several esisting idle processes that wait for client requests.

The daemon will know which if any server processes is idle so that load leveling is accomplished. I know that this facility can be done since Oracle does it with it's Multi-Threaded server. The question is what unix facilities are needed since I believe that you can only pass a socket to a forked child process.

Thanks in advance
Rob
rpeters_at_cdc.com Received on Wed Jun 29 1994 - 21:30:01 CEST