Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 07:54:31 -0400 From: Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: mb@imp.ch Subject: Re: Making a dynamically-linked root Message-ID: <20030603115432.EGLB13328.out002.verizon.net@kokeb.ambesa.net> In-Reply-To: <16092.35144.948752.554975@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <20030603113927.I71313@cvs.imp.ch> <16092.35144.948752.554975@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 07:40:56 -0400 (EDT) Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote: > > Webservers and all other applications which run shell scripts exec a > shell to interpret that script. Regardless of how the parent is > linked, if the exec'ed shell is dynamically linked, there is an added > cost to exec'ing it. and these are usually perl, php, or compiled cgi programs, not /bin/sh. -- Mike Makonnen | GPG-KEY: http://www.identd.net/~mtm/mtm.asc mtm@identd.net | D228 1A6F C64E 120A A1C9 A3AA DAE1 E2AF DBCC 68B9 mtm@FreeBSD.Org| FreeBSD - The Power To Serve
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