BIND child forks

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> 
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:49:48AM +0100, Christian Richard Chapman wrote:
> > 
> > I'm running BIND9.1.3 on a small internal LAN on a very small P166 with
> > 128MB of RAM using RH7.2.  I notice that the system forks 5 processes.
> 
> No, it doesn't, but linux ships with a... shall we be polite and say
> idiosyncratic...  ps(1). Read the FAQ that ships with BIND 9.
> 
> -P.
> 
	I would say that it ships with a broken threads implementation
	that application writers have to hack around.  The fact
	that there are multiple entries in the process table is a
	artifact of that brokeness.

	Mark
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