On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
Yes but the xinetd process keeps the socket open, then on new connection forks and gives the service the fd of the new connection, retaining the fd for the listener part. Which means that on every connection it has to fork (and that's extremely slow).
Only true for "nowait" entries. "wait" entries will pass the listening socket to the process which then accepts connections itself.
-- Edward Allcutt