[OT] djb Was: Re: Metuxmpm test failed

Leen Besselink <[email protected]> Sun, 5 Oct 2003 23:33:08 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.metuxmpm
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On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 [email protected] wrote:

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> On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 03:37:49PM +0400, Dmitry P. Schegolev wrote:
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> > I am not a good programmer and I don't know how apache function. I don't know 
> > "ideology" of apache. But if I develop metuxmpm, I will do something like 
> > qmail, because I like modular structure. I think, multiplexer must be an 
>   ^^^^
> aah ... djb's a fool ;-)
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I've not been completely happy with any mailsoftware yet, maybe it's
because mail is such a messy thing. Postfix and qmail come close though.

But I'm religious of use of LDAP in hosting, so what do I know ! :-)

djb has some great ideas, I like elegance/simplicity.

But this is a completely different discussion.

> > separate program, not apache program, which only get data from tcp socket and 
> > multiplex it to ordinary apache process rely on http header. 
> too slow, too resource intensive.
> yet possible w/ squid.
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> > We already have apache process developed by apache team  and it seemes to be 
> > stable. So we need only multiplexer and manager. Why we use apache code to 
> > create multiplexer? May be it will be less buggy to write it from white 
> > paper? It's not a big piece of code, as I see.
> there are several reasons, i.e. reusing mod_ssl for ssl handling and 
> other similar cases.
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> cu
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