Simulate socket with files or stdin/stdout

Donn Cave donn at drizzle.com
Sat Apr 3 23:52:45 EST 2004


Quoth claird at lairds.com (Cameron Laird):
[... re invoking application with connected socket for unit 0 & 1 ...]
| I wonder how close the effect will be to recreation of inetd
| <URL: http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?inetd >.

Pretty close, given the root privilege to configure inetd and
no intent to add any authorization checks, logging or other
embellishments.

	Donn Cave, donn at drizzle.com



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