STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote:
There is a pseudo-exception to this rule. If you look at httpd the httpd process, all field requests that are coming in on port 80 (by default). The portmapper actually takes care of distributing the work.
'portmap'? No it doesn't... Multiple httpd processes have the same port open because it was opened once, and then the process which had that file open forked or created multiple threads. Each child or thread will have the same files open.
