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2010 Jan 23
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Mail process plans: multiple connections in a process + idle processes
...ons coming from
login processes when they've finished authenticating a connection.
Internally it figures out if the connection should go to a new or an
existing process. It keeps track of
username -> { mail_process[], cookie (see idle processes below) }
mail_process -> { unix_socket_fd, connection_count }
So there's a connection to each mail process. This connection is used to
send connection fds for the process to handle. It's also used to receive
notifications when a connection is closed.
The mail process sockets could also be used to communicate to a specific
process. For example dove...