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, -- Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
