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Bug#169089: ITP: GoFish -- A simple Gopher server



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

I intend to package the GoFish gopher server, written by Sean
MacLennan <seanm@seanm.ca>, and released under the GNU GPL.

Upstream sources are available from http://sf.net/projects/gofish/.
Current version is 0.22.

Description:
GoFish is a simple gopher / web server. It is designed with security
and low resource usage in mind. GoFish uses a single process that
handles all the connections. This provides low resource usage, good
latency (no context switches), and good scalability.

GoFish runs in a chroot(2) environment. This means that GoFish can
only serve files from the root directory or below. While GoFish must
run at root privilege to be able to use port 70, it drops to a normal
user while accessing files.

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