From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 9 16:28:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 062D314EFC for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 16:28:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA42190; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 19:28:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 19:28:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Supprting twist for inetd with libwrap In-Reply-To: <22705.928964076@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG One of the nice things about Unix has always been low process-spawning overhead. FreeBSD should do quite well, especially, since it is demand-paged and a fork doesn't actually copy much, just the vm map and makes everything COW. Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___)___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message