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Date:      Fri, 31 Mar 2000 22:54:37 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Rici Lake <rlake@oxfam.org.pe>
Cc:        Jeff Hamilton <hjeffrey@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: portmap in hosts.allow configuration notes. Was Re: /etc/hosts.allow 
Message-ID:   <200003312254.aa61319@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 31 Mar 2000 13:11:06 CDT." <Pine.LNX.4.05.10003311059380.8417-100000@rlake.oxfam.org.pe> 

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> The twist option cannot work other than in inetd mode. It causes the
> calling process to be replaced (through the execl(3) system call) with an
> configured shell process. If the calling process intended to hang around
> for a while to answer more requests, it's in for a surprise.

The wrapper library has a variable "resident". It looks like can
be set to indicate that your are a process like portmap, sshd or
sendmail, who doesn't want to be execed out of existance. I guess 
this should be set in these programs before any wrapper stuff is
called - I haven't checked to see if it is, but I'll have a look.

	David.


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