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Date:      Thu, 7 Nov 1996 12:32:34 -0600 (CST)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, terry@lambert.org, julian@whistle.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: still no response
Message-ID:  <199611071832.MAA11058@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <199611071819.LAA10340@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Nov 7, 96 11:18:59 am

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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



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