Henrique de Moraes Holschuh --> info-cyrus (2005-03-11 17:54:48 -0300): > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Jukka Salmi wrote: > > why is it needed to shut down a process after it has handled a certain > > amount of connections? I'm talking about the -U option to imapd, pop3d, > > lmtpd, nntpd, etc. > > It is not _needed_. But it is a defense against lurking bugs that leak > memory, and againt some scenarios of memory corruption and attacks.
I see. Thanks for the explanation! Jukka -- bashian roulette: $ ((RANDOM%6)) || rm -rf ~ --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html