Chris Lightfoot wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 09:43:00AM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote: > > > Fascinating, but I'm afraid that's all completely over my head! I'm > > really not good at the SSL stuff, and remember, Exim supports GnuTLS > > as well as OpenSSL. What is currently there seems to work, and as I > > have far too much other stuff to do, my judgement at the moment is > > to leave well alone. > > it's nasty, because it can make a select loop much more tangled. One > alternative would be to fork a process to proxy between SSL and > non-SSL connections, though this has its own disadvantages.
Indeed, although I do prefer a more tangled select loop. Then, if you remember how this thread started that suggestion is not even worth contemplating :) The overhead of alarm() pales into insignificance next to the overhead of fork(). On a side note, has anyone ever profiled the exim code? Ian -- Ian Freislich -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
