>>> [...], then it quite easy for a swarm of requests to overwhelm an
>>> accepting server since his backlog can be exceeded before he even
>>> gets scheduled to run.
>> This can happen even with block-until-accept behaviour; it just
>> takes lots of processes.  Which is probably what you would have
>> anyway; how often does a single process connect to the same server
>> again before carrying out whatever protocol the first connection is
>> intended for?
> *cough* Threads. *cough*

So s/process/thread/ in my argument; the rest of it remains the same.

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