Re: [boost] asio review extended till Dec 30th

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-29 12:38:31

Jody Hagins wrote:

> I'm sure there are many alternatives, but the first to mind (yet
> probably undesirable), is to fork a process and use IPC mechanisms
> and a very simple protocol in the absence of threading.

I'm not sure why is spawning a process and using IPC better than using a 
thread. Is adding -lpthread to the command line that much to ask? Where's 
the problem?