starting a service on use

[Robert Brockway]

On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> However, in that case inetd is the one listening on the port, and I
> believe it requires launching one copy of the service per connection,
> and when the connection finishes the service instance terminates again.

My recollection was that inetd does not start any instances of a daughter 
daemon until a port connection comes in.  As it happens I have 
something[1] using Inetd on my laptop and just tried it and sure enough 
there are no daughter daemons present until the connection comes in.

[1] It's Leafnode.  I'm back to using Usenet regularly and it seems to be 
more popular than it was a few years ago (but still not near the heyday of 
the early 90s).

Cheers,

Rob

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