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Re: Re: Funny article
From: vb () dontpanic ulm ccc de
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:47:11 +0100
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:08:13AM -0600, Frank Knobbe wrote:
The reason IIS4+ runs as SYSTEM appears to be to gain performance.
Sorry, I do not understand that - why should that improve performance if user SYSTEM is used and not a normal user?
I guess running IIS as a kernel module and having less context switches does do well for performance (like an Apache LKM), but unfortunately not for security.
Perhaps one should better have a look at Felix von Leitners work for doing scalable network programming. VB. -- Volker Birk, Postfach 1540, 88334 Bad Waldsee, Germany Phone +49 (7524) 912142, Fax +49 (7524) 996807, dingens () bumens org http://fdik.org, Deutsches IRCNet fdik!~c_vbirk () wega rz uni-ulm de PGP-Key: http://www.x-pie.de/vb.asc _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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