Some folks don't like the fork exec overhead required by inetd.
On Sunday, May 30, 1999 6:55 PM, Graham Stoney [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
: Greg Haerr writes:
: > : ...actually, now I come to think about it, isn't that what lpr and lpd do
: > : anyway? So why does my big-Linux box have an lpd running all the time?
: > :
: >
: > Lpr is client side and not spawned by inetd. The way
: > that inetd works, it's pretty easy to write daemons that can run standalone,
: > or from inetd fork()ing and execing the daemon with redirected stdin.
:
: Sure, but that doesn't really answer the question. Why then is lpd typically
: kicked off at boot time, when it could just be started dynamically from inetd?
:
: Thanks,
: Graham
