We [exec a 160K program about once a second with no ill effects.  Very
very rarely we have had a stuck exec process that goes CPU bound.  I'm
assuming it's some kind of race condition in the start/stop interface.
So we run a monitor program to watch for this and kill it.

Good luck,
Jim

>
> Hi.
>
> Our company runs one AOLserver instance which is mainly used (almost no
> HTTP requests) for handling email messages.
>
> We want to use mks_vir (a virus software very popular in Poland), which
> we would use doing
>    set handle [open "|mks32 --filelist-on-stdin" a+]
> and then send the actual filename upon receiving an email (which is
> actually sent via a temporary file - so we would just send mks the
> filename).
>
> I'm however wondering about possible problems with fork'ing the mks
> process? Some memory issues? Potential problems?
>
> --
> WK
> (written at Stardate 56684.6)
>
> "Data typing is an illusion. Everything is a sequence of bytes."
>                                                               -Todd Coram
>

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