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Re: xinetd is a viable inet-superserver



On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:51:07AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > Well, not completely true. There might be more than one understanding.
> > Mine is that providing a inet-superserver provides the _functionality_
> > of a inet-superserver not the same _config file_.

>   wrong. providing inet-superserver means that you are able to perform
> what any implementation of inetd(8) does, namely, reading
> /etc/inetd.conf, and _then_ possibly have extended features on its own.

Where is that documented?  Watching the progression of inetd packages in
Debian has been dizzying, I don't have the sense that there's any sort of
central plan that everyone's following.  This virtual package's semantics
certainly aren't documented in policy.

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