{"by":"wooby","id":867519,"kids":[867604,867566,867527],"parent":867452,"text":"The alternative to preforking is select(2), which lets you get away with a single-process server and avoid IPC in certain scenarios: <a href=\"http://www.lowtek.com/sockets/select.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.lowtek.com/sockets/select.html</a><p>I think Boa and thttpd use select instead of forking for clients.","time":1254945739,"type":"comment"}