[SR-Users] dictionary attacks

Daniel-Constantin Mierla miconda at gmail.com
Sun Oct 24 21:34:31 CEST 2010



On 10/24/10 9:17 PM, Alex Balashov wrote:
> On 10/24/2010 03:16 PM, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
>
>> If you use the perl module, then the perl interpreter is embedded,
>> nothing is spawn. Same is with app_lua module and Lua scripts -
>> execution should be very fast.
>>
>> If you invoke other applications via exec() (exec module) then is
>> spawning.
>
> I did not mean the invocation of the interpreter;  I just meant that 
> there is always overhead when data interchange to an outside process 
> is involved.
what do you mean by outside process?

For example, with app_lua, the interpreter is linked to the code, so is 
no external process, it is like cfg interpreter, just that it resides in 
a module, not in core.

Cheers.
Daniel

>
> On the other hand, it gives you the ability to use the full 
> capabilities of Perl, of course, instead of being limited to Kamailio 
> script.
>

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