On Wed, 10 May 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Yes, basically how it works is it accepts and forks until the limit is
> reached and then it stops calling accept until a child exits. New
> connections sit on the listen queue until that runs out then they get a
> connection refused message.
I finally realized that this was what you meant. However, it would
require a serious re-organization of the logic of Exim's daemon to
implement, and I don't think everyone will agree that it is a good idea,
so it would also have to be optional.
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