listas@lozano.eti.br writes:
> I can't imagine how a web server cannot be affected by apps creating
> threads and/or proccesses. Think about memmory use, resource
> pooling, syncronization issues, ... remember a child process ot
> thread prevents the termination of its parent (which may become a
> zombie on Unix systems, and a zombie still holds its open file
> handles).
This is wrong. Parents *can* terminate with running children, and
zombie processes take up no resources other than a process table slot.
-Doug