From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 21 6:20:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C20D14C8B for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 06:20:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 10w3zr-000NaN-00; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 15:20:23 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: David Malone Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inetd and wrapping. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jun 1999 14:13:49 +0100." <9906211413.aa28663@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 15:20:23 +0200 Message-ID: <90666.929971223@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 14:13:49 +0100, David Malone wrote: > I got one person who suggested a flag in inetd.conf which could disable > wrapping for a service. This seems like quite a good idea if we can come > up with an acceptable syntax for the flag. What I have in mind is a -w option. Specified once, it disables wrapping of internal services. Specified twice, it disables wrapping altogether. It's a pity we went forward the way we did, making wrapping the default for STABLE. I'd have preferred leaving it disabled by default, for maximum backward compatibility. However, now that we're here, I think it'll be a very confusing move to make non-wrapping behaviour the default. There's already a flag in inetd.conf called inetd_flags, in which the administrator could place her "-w" or "-w -w" as desired. Ciao, Sheldon. PS: My request for feedback wasn't about the command-ling options. It was about the handling of UDP connections. :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message