From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 5 08:15:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA08112 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 08:15:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from zwei.siemens.at (zwei.siemens.at [193.81.246.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA08107 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 08:15:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from sol1.gud.siemens.co.at (root@[10.1.143.100]) by zwei.siemens.at (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA23676 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 17:13:37 +0100 (MET) Received: from ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at by sol1.gud.siemens.co.at with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #7 for ) id m0vKo8v-00021LC; Tue, 5 Nov 96 17:14 MET Received: by ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at (1.37.109.16/1.37) id AA157530400; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 17:13:20 +0100 From: "Hr.Ladavac" Message-Id: <199611051613.AA157530400@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> Subject: Re: [Fwd: usr.sbin.inetd] To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 17:13:20 +0100 (MEZ) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <327E8DDA.59E2B600@whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Nov 4, 96 04:44:10 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk E-mail message from Julian Elischer contained: > Here is a compatible but useful addition to inetd. > I've wanted this for a long time.. > > one change... > in the man page it describes tha option as [something I forget] > but we decided that it should be better > described as: > > {wait|nowait}[/maxclients] > > does anyone see a reason this is bad? > > does anyone else thonk it's useful? This is probably the one most useful improvement for our cross-compile environment which presently does not allow enough rsh accesses. I was about to do the same and then replace the SINIX inetd with the BSD one. I'm now certain to do so :) /Marino