Re: [exim] Connection Count

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Author: B. Johannessen
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To: exim-users
CC: Chris Lightfoot
Subject: Re: [exim] Connection Count
Reply-To set to exim-dev@??? as this is not really a "user" discussion.

Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:40:16AM +0100, B. Johannessen wrote:
>> I was looking into creating such a patch myself, and I came to the
>> conclusion that to be useful the count would have to be stored in a
>> shared-memory segment. I don't know enough about shmem portability
>> issues to do this, so I kind of forgot about it...
>
> You could use a temp file which remains open in the child
> process -- probably less efficient, but I doubt
> significantly, and much easier to implement and more
> portable.


At the cost of one file descriptor per Exim process. Probably not a
problem for most people, but still not something I would as long as
there was better options.


    Bob