Re: Crypto-sendmail (was Crypto Coding Project)

Ben Laurie (ben@algroup.co.uk)
Mon, 24 Aug 1998 15:23:56 +0100

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EKR wrote:
>
> "Enzo Michelangeli" <em@who.net> writes:
> > [...]
> > >I doubt this will be an acceptable long-term solution,
> > >on heavily loaded mail servers because the performance costs
> > >of the fork() are excessive.
> >
> >
> > Well, key negotiation is much harder on the CPU resources than a fork().
> Actually, this is irrelevant anyway. I'd forgotten that
> sendmail() forks immediately anyway -- or at least did
> when last I looked.

Uh? It isn't the fork() that is the problem (with inetd-style
launching), its the exec that follows it.

Cheers,

Ben.

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