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Re: [HACKERS] Re: New pg_pwd patch and stuff

Micha3 Mosiewicz <mimo@lodz.pdi.net> — 1998-01-18T03:39:45Z

The Hermit Hacker wrote:

>         Hrmmmm...i don't quite agree with this.  postmaster can handle one
> connection at a time, and then has to pass it off to the postgres backend
> process...DoS attacks are easier now then by forking before HBA.  I just have

Forking is not so bad... but isn't there any exec also? And of course
it's a difference if your machine is overloaded by processes or if it's
only one service that doesn't respond becouse the access-controling code
is disabled.

Second question... if we speak only about forking postmaster, or it's
about forking-execing-opening files-reading-etc stuff? If it's only
fork, I would totally agree with you, otherwise I'm not sure which is
worse... 

Mike

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