Re: Custom Reload command/signal in upstart
> In that light the memory saving trade off for security and practicality
> actually makes sense as you could save lots and lots of resources on a
> massive server or server farm running hundreds or thousands of server
> systems per machine etc..
Unless someone conjures up a targeted attack (please don't) in which
case the DDOS may well be highly exacerbated or amplified in a new way.
Even then I guess the cost savings for a normal day will be worth it
for their business if they can ride any bad press.
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'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work
together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a
universal interface'
(Doug McIlroy)
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