Re: Respawn limit for runsv?

["Clemens Fischer" <ino-qc@spotteswoode.de.eu.org>]

* Lars Kellogg-Stedman:

> Having said that, an external implementation does work, although the code is
> a little more complicated since it becomes necessary to maintain some sort
> of external state.

this is the same problem as making a connection limiter for tcpserver/tvpsvd.
this can become important for services under DOS attacks.  i have such a
beast, written in guile-scheme (for experimenting), and the database part
works, but not logging by writing to stderr.  the correct place to implement a
simple algorithm (don't let some IP connect more then N times in T seconds)
would be the servers themselves.

> But with a working external solution, I'm probably too lazy to pursue
> anything else.

you could still make a patch and send it to the list.  me, i don't dare to
until i thought out all the issues with a simple but propably big and ever
changing hash table on file.

  clemens