Xinetd resurrection

[devzero2000]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Lorenzo Villani
<lvillani at binaryhelix.net>wrote:

> On 09/20/2009 06:28 PM, Steve Grubb wrote:
>
>>
>> Not at all. These days the only need for xinetd is in memory constrained
>> systems. For mainline x86_64 bought with typically 4Gb of main memory,
>> xinetd
>> is a thing of the past. That's my point.
>>
>>  Well, I am probably part of that 0.000001% who would like some services
> to start on-demand.
> For example I don't print all the time and I prefer to have cups start only
> when needed, then die instead of having it waiting for no real purpose. Now,
> this is a case in which it doesn't make sense (you start xinetd instead of
> cups for no real gain) but it can be useful with some setups.
>
> Even if I have a quad-core system with 4Gb of memory available I always
> prefer to find a better use for it.
>
> What about launchd ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchd

http://developer.apple.com/macosx/launchd.html

Sound good  But it really have MUCH more functionality of xinetd (or the old
inetd)


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