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In <1992Sep29.113527.10193@sequent.com> timw@sequent.com (Tim Wright) writes:

>In <BvB8DE.40y@news.cso.uiuc.edu> paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) writes:
>
>>Does anyone have a porting guide for programs meant to be invoked by inetd?
>
>inetd retruns a TLI endpoint. The top of the stream has "timod" pushed,
>so the hackers guide to porting code meant to run under inetd is:
>ioctl(s, I_POP, "timod");
>ioctl(s, I_PUSH, "sockmod");
>at which point you have a socket, and all your usual code should work.
>Warning: this works for me under TCP 2.1 and 2.2.1, but I cannot guarantee
>that it will always do so. If you just want a TLI endpoint that you
>can read and write on, you just pop "timod", and push "tirdwr" instead.
>Hope this makes things easier for you.

Seems to me to be the sort of thing that inetd should do for you
with an additional configuration parameter. Eg:

#Service Type	Proto	Module	No/Wait	User	executable		Args
#----	------	---	------	------	----	----------		----
ftp	stream	tcp	sockmod	nowait	root	/usr/etc/ftpd.new	ftpd
telnet	stream	tcp	timod	nowait	root	/usr/etc/in.telnetd	telnetd

Fix?
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