[Gllug] canon mp360

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 06:18:20AM +0000, t.clarke wrote:
> I was rather under the impression that inetd typically listened for services
> that did not actually 'listen' themselves, nor have the required fork to fork
> themselves, but simply accepted stdin stdout FDs and did standard-io over them
> to communicate with the caller!

Precisely - inetd was as much about simplifying writing services as
about saving memory.  One could also argue that having all the
services listed in a single file was also a useful consequence of
having a superserver.  It also provides the "trivial" services, like
echo and discard.  (Has anyone ever enabled these?)

It's a shame that no one uses TCPMUX:
http://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1078.txt

Rich.

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