imapd's hang when maxchild count is reached

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 05 Feb 2003, Igor Brezac wrote:
> > descriptors down to a child via a unix domain socket using sendmsg() or
> > recvmsg(). In this case the master accepts the connection, passes the
> > descriptor to a child via sendmsg(), closes the socket (the child should now
> > be servicing it), and goes back to listening.
> 
> This is not very portable.  ;(

Would it work on Linux and Solaris? If the answer is yes to both, then I
would vote for adding that suport conditional to a configure.in check.

I guess if it can be done on Linux, the BSDs can almost certainly do it as
well.

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