+1 to using an existing socket, it's more flexible than listen(0) + report
as per the inetd case. qpidd started out doing listen(0) + report and we
ended up having to do the existing socket thing as well - just existing
socket covers both with less code in the proactor.

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Robbie Gemmell (JIRA) <[email protected]>
wrote:

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> Robbie Gemmell commented on PROTON-1646:
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> Another common approach for tests can be for a component to be told to
> bind a free port by itself, with it then offering a way to find out what it
> was.
>
> > Proactor API needs a way to use an existing socket.
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> >
> >                 Key: PROTON-1646
> >                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTON-1646
> >             Project: Qpid Proton
> >          Issue Type: Improvement
> >          Components: cpp-binding, proton-c
> >    Affects Versions: proton-c-0.18.0
> >            Reporter: Andrew Stitcher
> >            Assignee: Cliff Jansen
> >
> > There are various times when it is necessary to take an existing socket
> and use it to communicate.
> > * The most obvious is when we are started by systemd or inetd and passed
> the listening socket that they have accepted on our behalf.
> > * Another case is in tests when we might want to open a port using a
> random port number and then atomically hand that to test code.
>
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