Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:02:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, John Baldwin <jobaldwi@smtp2.erols.com> Subject: Re: Inetd and wrapping. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906221502030.15693-100000@penelope.skunk.org> In-Reply-To: <2235.930063703@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:53:28 GMT, Ben Rosengart wrote: > > > But if you can turn off wrapping, you can save a fork()/exec() per > > connection. > > The only exec is an execv() at line 740 of inetd.c, which launches the > program that will service a request. It's done irrespective of wrapping. > So you can save a fork, not an exec. Forks are cheap. Oh, duh. I was still thinking in terms of tcpd, not libwrap. -- Ben UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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