Re: On PATH_MAX

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 21:02 +0100, ness wrote:
> Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 15:02 +0100, ness wrote:
> > 
> >>The problem Jonathan pointed out is that *others* will delay. This is 
> >>not the case, as the server will be multithreaded.
> > 
> > 
> > I think that this reply and mine crossed in the mail, but just in case:
> > 
> >   Not if you want that server to be remotely robust, it won't.
> > 
> 
> Could you elaborate a bit on this? I see there is a problem wenn calling 
> a remote object the way I discribed, this would at least require 
> handling at a higher level.

See my earlier comment about the engineering risks of multithreading.