[Info-vax] New OpenSSL update from HP

[David Froble]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2015-06-15 03:25:41 +0000, David Froble said:
> 
>> Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>> On 2015-06-14 22:43:29 +0000, Jan-Erik Soderholm said:
>>>
>>>> One of the reasons CSWS performes less good on VMS is becuse of the 
>>>> high use of forked subprocesses. *That* is inefficient on VMS.
>>
>> Well, the way I understand FORK,
> 
> Few do understand fork, David.  Few do.  Even many Unix users don't 
> realize what it provides.  AFAIK, Apache does not use the full 
> capabilities of fork.  There'd be no reason to, unless you were sharing 
> address spaces and I/O channels.

My understanding, and I'm not claiming it's complete, is that a whole 
'nother copy of everything in the "process" (don't know what *ix calls 
them) with the program already running, files open, and some things 
(like memory?) are shared.  Sounds rather dangerous to me.  Not sure how 
I'd use such anyway ...