From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 12 9:32: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E39537B423; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 09:32:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA12042; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 12:32:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 12:32:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200104121632.MAA12042@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Gregory Neil Shapiro Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who is maintainer of kerberos/heimdall/sendmail? In-Reply-To: <15061.54990.696463.650498@horsey.gshapiro.net> References: <200104111830.LAA25116@usr07.primenet.com> <15061.54990.696463.650498@horsey.gshapiro.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: tlambert> The value of SOMAXCONN is not valis; the valid limit is only tlambert> obtainable from sysctl (kern.ipc.somaxconn). > We (Sendmail) will look at integrating your fix into 8.12 (which will be > the first to actually use it -- it's #ifdef'ed out in 8.11). No code should ever examine kern.ipc.somaxconn; it is there for sysadmin use only. If the desire is to express ``the most this system will allow'', the correct use is to pass the value -1 as the backlog parameter to listen(). All systems which implement kern.ipc.somaxconn also implement this feature. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message