| > The Apache forking model moves streams between different
| > processes, but from what I heard, these are terribly unportable
| > operations, and they require the processes to be closely related
| > to each other.
|
| I don't understand the relevance of Apache. Are you referring to the
| HTTP daemon?
Apache can keep a pool of threads around with a single listener
process. It hands
individual threads work to do by passing them
file descriptors over a pipe. At least, that's what I seem to
recall it does, or did 10 - 12
years ago the last time I read up
on how Apache worked.
Passing sessions between instances of Screen would require a similar
process. You'd need to hand the fd for the tty from one Screen to
another, perhaps with additional metadata (scroll history, perhaps?).
That's the relevance.
Regards,
--Joe