standalone-nnrpd "dies" when hitting ressource limits

[Heiko Schlichting]

Sven Paulus wrote:
> the standalone nnrpd parent process dies if there are temporary problems
> when it is trying to fork(). [...]

I think this is what MAX_FORKS is used for. If you don't want this behavior
you can increase MAX_FORKS. But in most cases it is a better solution to
terminate the standalone nnrpd than crashing other processes on the system
like inn or innfeed.

Your patch would make MAX_FORKS useless and increases the risk for a harmful
standalone nnrpd. You can just raise MAX_FORKS to a high value and should have
the same effect if you really want this.

Heiko

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