starting a service on use

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 03:26:59PM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote:
> 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.

Right, but it is inetd listening on the port, not the service.
The service gets called with stdio/out connected to the established
connection.

> [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).

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