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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: cleaning up the net -- software solutions proposed
Message-ID: <3021@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 13:22:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: nsc.3021
Posted: Tue Jul 23 13:22:16 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jul-85 07:31:43 EDT
References: <2961@nsc.UUCP> <331@phri.UUCP> <3013@nsc.UUCP> <289@ttrdc.UUCP>
Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Summary: 

In article <289@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>Suppose... for the purposes of munging the headers of incoming messages from
>other machines, the restrictions were to be placed in environment variables
>imposed by some man-readable shell script which then execs over to the news
>handler?  Would that help at all?

Process creation through fork() is one of the most expensive things you can
do on a system. Some batching processes already require two fork() calls
per netnews message (ugh!), most require at least one. Having it filter
through a shell would probably be worse than trying to parse through a
configuration file -- easier to code, but much worse on the performance.
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