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[Olivier Salaün <address@concealed>]

Hi Mark,

The standard way to run wwsympa.fcgi is to use FastCGI ; it allows to 
run persistent CGI processes, see 
https://www.sympa.org/wiki/manual/web-interface#using_fastcgi. Therefore 
there is no such drawback for using a perl wrapper.

However, in next 5.4 we've change the way wwsympa.fcgi and 
sympa_soap_server.fcgi run as the 'sympa' uid. We're now using a C 
wrapper, provided by Marcin Deranek. This new solution has the 
advantages of not requiring suidperl and also not requiring any sudo 
configuration for the server administrator.

Mark K a écrit :
> Just wondering why the wwsympa_sudo_wrapper is in perl instead of a binary 
> like the other wrappers?  When using sudo, this means that each
> web access fires up a perl interpreter twice.
>