[ale]simple inetd daemon

Tommie M. Jones tj at atlantageek.com
Tue Nov 20 16:36:45 EST 2001


SIGIO might be what you need.  You can configure this signal to happen
when data appears on a set of sockets.


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On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Chris Fowler wrote:

> I need to write a simple inetd daemon that will manage only rshd and telnetd.  I know a
> bit of how it works.  I need to know how 1 daemon can listen to multiple sockets.
>
> Idea on telnet.
>
> listen on port.
> accept call
> fork
> setsid
> setuid, setgid (to root)
> dup the socket to 0 1 2
> exec /bin/telnetd
>
> I guess I could look at the basic inetd.c code but I would like to write from scratch.
> What is the tcp wait and no wait options?
>
> thanks,
> Chris
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