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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
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> > > The inetd already has a session limit.  It's just not per service, it's
> > > per inetd, and it's compiled in.
> > 
> > I thought that was a session spawning rate limit - not a session number
> > limit.  Maybe I am wrong.
> 
> The spawning rate limit is a soft limit.

Sorry, you are right.  It _used_ to be a hard limit, and it used to be
compiled in.  I'm remembering running into this on *OS and having to 
build my own inetd from BSD sources so that I could play
hack-the-constant...

> The session number limit is set external to the inetd (think: number of
> child processes).

Yes, but that is not "per inetd, and it's compiled in".

... JG