Re: How does inetd work?

[Andrew Perrin <clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu>]

My understanding is that it depends upon the type of connection. A dgram 
("nowait") server is spawned separately and the socket is passed, while a 
wait server is passed stdin, stdout, and stderr and managed through inetd.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-inetd.html

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On Wed, 24 May 2006, Dirk wrote:

> I know inetd forwards a programms (servers) stdout to the client... but
> where does it forward the requests from a client to? It's not stdin..
>
>
> It there any simple example server available that was written to work
> with inetd?
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>
> Dirk
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