"leg+" == Lawrence Greenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
leg+> Yes, that would be desirable. The easiest way of doing this leg+> would be to close the socket used to accept() new leg+> connections. However, it's open in all of the children, so leg+> closing it is infeasible. leg+> The next option would be to have master accept() and then leg+> immediately close() the connection. This raises interesting leg+> blocking concerns and is thus somewhat harder to implement. leg+> Thus the current solution seems acceptable. Hmmm... what does Sendmail do? It's got lots of children, but still manages to refuse connections when it gets busy (RefuseLA)... I kinda like that behavior. I definitely like it better than keeping more and more sockets open. -- Stephen L. Ulmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer http://www.ulmer.org/ Northeast Regional Data Center VOX: (352) 392-2061 University of Florida FAX: (352) 392-9440
