Threads, a neccessary evil or just a bad idea in search of a problem?

... is really only a slight difference in degree between a 'shared memory' multiprocessor system and a LAN based multiprocessor system Long winded ...think RPC is a bad idea . WAN Communal nodes that are potentially ... them. The only distinction is between cooperating and communal nodes. Consequences ... mechanism for passing file descriptors between processes. Then the receiving process ...