On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 12:34:14AM +0200, Ian Vännman wrote:
| Ok, I got a handle on the situation. But I still got a questions:
| 
| When spamd receives a message from spamc does spamd spawn a new spamd
| process?
| 
| I'm seeing that on my machine.

Yes, if by "spawn" you mean fork.

| I'm worried that for some reason spamc is not connecting to the spamd daemon
| running, instead spamc spawns a new spamd process for each message causing
| unnecessary processing...

spamc can't create new spamd processes, it only (attempts) to connect
to a TCP socket.  forking is cheap, too.

-D

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