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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 10:41:35 +1000
From: Michael Samuel <mik@...net.net>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: phk@....freebsd.dk
Subject: Re: Re: Varnish - no CVE == bug regression

So just to clarify:

On 9 July 2014 05:55, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@....freebsd.dk> wrote:
>         param.show auto_restart
>         200 132
>         auto_restart
>                 Value is: on [bool] (default)
>                 Default is: on
>
>                 Restart child process automatically if it dies.

Does this mean that the parent holds the accept() socket open, so if a worker
dies (eg. due to the client injecting a header into it's own
connection) only that
connection is affected?

Regards,
  Michael

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