Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 17:01:43 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org> 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: <2235.930063703@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:53:28 GMT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906221453020.15693-100000@penelope.skunk.org>
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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. I'm not really opposed to having command-line options for per-case exclusions -- I'm just opposed to doing the work myself if it doesn't gain us anything significant. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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