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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 07:54:31 -0400
From: Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net>
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On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 07:40:56 -0400 (EDT)
Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote:

> 
> Webservers and all other applications which run shell scripts exec a
> shell to interpret that script.  Regardless of how the parent is
> linked, if the exec'ed shell is dynamically linked, there is an added
> cost to exec'ing it.

and these are usually perl, php, or compiled cgi programs, not /bin/sh.

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