Christopher C. Stacy <cstacy@news.dtpq.com> wrote:
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| Scott Schwartz <"schwartz+@usenet "@bio.cse.psu.edu> writes:
| > GP lisper <spambait@CloudDancer.com> writes:
| > > Yes, but multiple connections is a 'hard part' in lisp.  Apparently,
| > > only threaded lisps can work.  That's interesting, since telnetd was
| > > part of linux long before threading appeared.
| > 
| > "If people understood fork, we wouldn't have threads." 
| >  -- Rob Pike.
| 
| To implement telnet correctly for one connection requires multiprocessing.
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Not so, if you have a reliable "select()" and non-blocking I/O.
In that case, a single process can easily do *multiple* telnetd's.
This is within-one-process multiprogramming, not multiprocessing.

Aside#1: What CMUCL call's "multiprocessing" is no such thing. It's really
  within-one-process multiprogramming, a.k.a. "cooperative green threads".]

Aside: I don't know if CMUCL's SERVE-EVENT is adequate to handle
  the "telnetd" job, but it might be.


-Rob

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