How does inetd know which process to send incoming data to?

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I'm trying to replace a inetd/xinetd service by a standalone one. What is the simplest I can do this? Is there some standard code to get started?

alk · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-07T04:01:41.920

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How does inetd know which process to send incoming data to

It spawns it (typically using fork() followed by exec*()), so it has the process-id.

Is there some standard code to get started?

edited May 07 '14 at 04:01

answered May 06 '14 at 13:16

alk

Found some at www.cs.cmu.edu/~srini/15-441/F02/Projects/lab01/ssl_echo/ – user2059893 May 06 '14 at 21:46
@user2059893: I added the link to xinetd's source repository to my answer. – alk May 07 '14 at 04:02
I was actually looking for something event-based (no spawns, no threads), and preferably simple. The nginx code looks promising. – user2059893 May 08 '14 at 16:16

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