Larsenal
Reputation: 51166
IIS Architecture: What signals w3wp.exe to start?
What is the mechanism by which the w3wp.exe process knows to start?
Any IIS gurus know the specifics about the internals?
Upvotes: 2
Views: 3077
Answers (1)
Oliver Weichhold
Reputation: 10296
There's a handler registered with the IIS that spawns it when a resource supported by it is requested and delegates the request to the worker process.
Upvotes: 4
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