actually in-kernel telnetd (and perhaps rlogind) is in Solaris 2.4 and
higher if I remember correctly, and the (ahem) express reason was that
at least one large customer was screaming about their 8-way Sparc1000
crawling under 200 or so telnet connections and nothing else running on
it... SunSolve bugreports are sometimes an enlightening reading. BTW an
all-time favorite is Adrian Cockcroft saying "HP-UX can't have *this*
POSIX-compliant _and_ running this fast. Or if they have, somebody go
and steal how they do it !"... well, something very similar.
Cheers,
--alessandro <asuardi@uninetcom.it> <asuardi@it.oracle.com>
Linux kernel-2.1.20 libc-5.4.17 gcc-2.7.2.1 binutils-2.7.0.3