On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > 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.
Oh, duh. I was still thinking in terms of tcpd, not libwrap. -- Ben UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
