Hi,
> Both tcpd and inetd are not very UNIX-like in my eyes.
> If you want access-control, better look for a program which binds to a
> socket, does the checks and opens another socket you can bind quark to.
>
> Everything else, like including support for inetd in quark, is just an
> insult against the UNIX-philosophy.
Can you explain this feeling?. Maybe I am wrong, but I think Unix
authors didn't share your opinion because listen(8) of plan9 is the
same idea that inetd (but better done because listen doesn't need
to parse any configuration file).
Regards,
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Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
Received on Mon Aug 11 2014 - 18:03:53 CEST