James Carlson wrote: > Darren J Moffat writes: >> Printing and NFS are much more interesting services than remote login >> shell services. > > Yep; agreed. Even httpd and samba may be better targets. > > I think the problem here may be a collision between wanting to "show > progress quickly" and doing something that's useful on real networks. > Getting printing and NFS on board in a useful way is likely to take > quite a bit longer. > > For my part, I have no real objection to seeing inetd enhanced to be > able to advertise services. It's at least a proof of concept that > lets us work through the various issues (such as on which networks to > advertise and how to represent in SMF). I agree, though, that the > likelihood that anyone can do something useful with it in a real > network is fairly low.
Except that the issues for inted services aren't necessarily the same as those that don't use that as their delegated restarter! If this was presented to ARC in this way I'd say "incomplete" because it doesn't appear useful in the real world, but I'd not necessarily vote to deny. -- Darren J Moffat
