full-disclosure - Re: Funny article

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From: vb at dontpanic.ulm.ccc.de (vb@...tpanic.ulm.ccc.de)
Subject: Re: Funny article

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.
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