SOCKETMAP performace (was Re: [Mimedefang] sendmail 8.13.0)

[Martin Blapp]

> The slaves are in different processes, though, not just in different threads.
>
> The point is that you do NOT want to open a database connection,
> call fork(), and then have more than one child try to use the same
> database connection.  They'll be sharing a file descriptor, and if both
> try to use it at the same time, things will get horribly messed up.

Hmm. I do that since two months and haven't seen any problems. Connects
are done over IP, not a local unix domain socket.

Is ir really very dangerous ?

Martin