Re: refusing connections based on load ...

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > > > > > Autoconf has a 'LOADAVG' check already, so what is so problematic about
> > > > > > using that to enabled/disable that feature?
> > > > >
> > > > > Because it's tied to a GNU getloadavg.c implementation, which we'd have
> > > > > license problems with using.
> > > >
> > > > It's part of the standard C library in FreeBSD.  Any other platforms
> > > > have it built in?
> > >
> > > As has been mentioned, Solaris and Linux also have it ...
> >
> > But what's in FreeBSD's standard library isn't GNU.
>
> Wouldn't matter if it was, its part of the OSs standard library ... unless
> you mean to pull it in and use it with the distribution, which I think
> might be a bad idea ... if we pull anything in, sendmail's would be best
> ... FreeBSD's will have had anything required for non-FreeBSD systems
> yanked out, if it was ever there, while sendmail's already has all the
> 'hooks' in it ...

That wasn't what I was saying at all.

Vince.
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