Re: Reasoning behind process instead of thread based

nd02tsk@student.hig.se writes:
>>Two:  If a
>> single process in a multi-process application crashes, that process
>> alone dies.  The buffer is flushed, and all the other child processes
>> continue happily along.  In a multi-threaded environment, when one
>> thread dies, they all die.
>
> So this means that if a single connection thread dies in MySQL, all
> connections die?

Yes, that's right.

> Seems rather serious. I am doubtful that is how they have
> implemented it.

If it's a multithreaded application, then there is nothing to doubt
about the matter.  If any thread dies, the whole process croaks, and
there's no choice in the matter.  If a thread has been corrupted to
the point of crashing, then the entire process has been corrupted.
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