imapd's hang when maxchild count is reached

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 06 Feb 2003, Dave McMurtrie wrote:
> Would this actually work anyway?  If the parent were to pass a file

You can send descriptors over sockets if your unix kernel supports it. Linux
does, and apparently so does Solaris.

Anyway, I dislike the idea of losing preforks heavily, it is bound to be a
major pain when the system is overloaded.

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