Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 18:51:35 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] Wouldn't it be possible (and better) to refuse further connections instead of having to wait for them to time out? Maybe I haven't thought this through properly, but it seems to me as if that were cleaner.
Yes, that would be desirable. The easiest way of doing this would be to close the socket used to accept() new connections. However, it's open in all of the children, so closing it is infeasible. The next option would be to have master accept() and then immediately close() the connection. This raises interesting blocking concerns and is thus somewhat harder to implement. Thus the current solution seems acceptable. Larry
