help using (x)inetd

[Steve Holden]

"Cliff Wells" <logiplexsoftware at earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:mailman.1025654105.12451.python-list at python.org...
> On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 19:39:22 -0400
> rahvee at yaahhoo.com wrote:
>
> > I have xinetd accepting a tcp connection on some port, and spawning a
> > process that I wrote.
> >
> > The process wants to have a conversation.  It can take input, it can
> > make output, but when it prints some output, that output gets buffered
> > by xinetd, and it is never received by the client until the process
> > closes.  My process is written in python.
> >
> > How can I signal inetd to flush the buffer?
>
>
> sys.stdout.flush()
>
Ravee:

Please also note that xinetd is completely out of the picture once your
daemon program is fully started, which is why Cliff's suggestion works: your
daemon program is in control of the socket directo to the client. Xinetd
spawns the right daemon and just carries on waiting for connections.

regards
 Steve