Talk:Inetd

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[edit] "Server"

I see that the phrase "inetd server" is straight from the man page, but that predates the advent of "client-server" terminology, so it might leave the reader confused. For instance when I glanced at the header, I thought is was going to be a very simple example of inetd itself, since technically inetd is a server. "inetd service" would be slightly better.--J Clear 23:43, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

I think that calling a service handler spawned by inetd a server is correct, as it is really just acting as a part of inetd (via a fork, to make a copy, and an exec to overlay the copy with the appropriate handler). However, I agree that it might be confusing--the whole client-server thing can be confusing, especially with protocols like X, where, for example, the server runs on my PC and the clients are various Unix systems spread across the country. I went ahead and changed the all the appropriate occurrences of "server" to "service" that I saw. scot 14:02, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the edits. Let me make my point another way though. Read the heading "Creating an inetd server" out of context. It's not that I don't think inetd is starting servers, just that the headline could refer to inetd itself. I'm a hardware guy, so the X protocol server makes perfect sense to me. ;-)--J Clear 23:07, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

OK, so I did miss one. I will make the change. I might also put in (if it's not already there) that inetd is often called a "super-server", since it is basicially a server server... scot 14:39, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] de-stub

It seems like this is complete enough for your average computer user or sysadmin. So I removed the stub tag.--J Clear 01:04, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Acutally, I think it's pretty much everything the average C/C++ programmer needs to know to implement a basic service. That's what I came here looking for, and when I didn't find it here, I decided to add it once I found it. The documentation for actually implementing an inetd server using the methods outlined is pretty scarse on the web--or rather it was pretty scarse, now it ought to be all over the place in the hundreds of Wikipedia mirrors. scot 14:06, 14 June 2006 (UTC)