threads and VMS [Re: dce/rpc "client" api]

[Christopher R. Hertel]

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> To take advantage of this you could keep the samba model of one
> smbd per connection but redesign smbd to use posix threads.
> This won't make the security context issues any different than
> in the current smbd design.

Multiple threads in the same user context might work.  If we do anything
with threads, though, we run the rist of reducing portability.  So, if we
do anything with threads we need to consider how we would isolate them 
into a special library.

Chris -)-----

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