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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.

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


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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