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.


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