>> Dbmail simply spawns NCHILDREN, accepts MAXCONNECTS subsequent >> connects per child, and then exits and respawns that child. >> >> Afaik MAXCHILDREN is not used at all. >> >> So if you're looking for intelligent pre-forking of children, or even >> simply linear scaling of children to accept incoming connects, look >> no further; it not there.
When the initial design was done, was it looked at writing the pop3d from a point of view of being spawned from xinetd? It would then be possible to take advantage of the protection that xinetd offers with regards to DOS attacks, rather than re-inventing the wheel. Matt
