Number of CPUs detected by Bind 9.4.2 on 4 CPU system runningRedHat es 4.

[Mark Andrews]

> On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 05:57:01PM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
> > Adam Tkac writes:
> > [...] 
> > > After quick look into bind and glibc code /proc has to be mounted.
> > > named calls sysconf(3) function and internal glibc implementation
> > > looks like this:
> > [...]
> > 
> >  Not that I have looked at the code, but maybe bind should grab this info
> >  before dropping privileges and going to jail ...
> > 
> 
> Yes, this will be the best long term solution. I'm going to prepare
> simple patch to fix this problem.
> 
> Adam
> 
> -- 
> Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc.

	/proc is also needed for IPv6 interface scanning.

	This is a design fault in Linux.
	The correct fix is to correct the design fault in the OS.

	Mark
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