Re: Frivolous forking

[Jose de Leon]

1.5 million/day?

Is that all?  I've seen better.  :-)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: D. J. Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 1998 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: Frivolous forking


Petr Novotny writes:
  [ if there's a security hole in getpwnam() ]
> Then the whole system is fucked up,

Not necessarily. There are very few privileged programs that feed
untrusted data to getpwnam(), aside from MTAs.

Anyway, folks, thanks for participating in the mailing list volume test.
On the mailing list machine, at concurrency 120, qmail sustained a rate
of 1.5 million deliveries/day. Enjoy the holidays.

---Dan