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A comment on Acme Thttpd.

Re:Acme Thttpd by JayGuerette on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @12:22AM (#31663156)
For static content and cgi-bin, busybox is much faster.
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Re:Acme Thttpd by chasil on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @01:50AM (#31663749)
Busybox lacks a chroot, which might improve security.

On the other hand, everything in busybox will itself run in a chroot, which might nullify this benefit.

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