Emulator stopping during mnesia writes
Klacke
klacke@REDACTED
Thu May 11 11:39:19 CEST 2000
>
> There is nothing wrong with using a whole process to do asynch I/O
> operations if threads are not availible. Many high performance systems
> do this. And if the I/O process segv's recovery is probably easier.
>
Well there is always the case with opening and closing filedescriptors.
It is possible (by means of the AF_UNIX socket trick) to send fd's
back and forth between unix processes, but a kernel thread sure
make it easier.
/klacke
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