XML-RPC server via xinetd

[Martin P. Hellwig]

Jos Vos wrote:
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> 
> The problem is that the server initialization *requires* a server
> address (host, port pair), but I don't see how to tell it to use
> the stdin socket (and I'm afraid this is not possible, but I'm not
> sure).
> 

If I understood it correctly you want the python server bind be 
depending on whatever is configured in xinetd.conf and not be defined in 
the your program itself?

I tested a bit around with my FreeBSD machine but indeed the OS 
environment gives me nothing interesting back, leaving that option out 
but I do can specify command line arguments so you could pick them up 
with sys.argv.

I looked up how you can specify arguments in xinetd and according to 
various resources I filtered out (gotta over these gnu type 
documentation...) that you can use "server_args" in the per service 
configuration to specify arguments.

Although not really elegant it is doable to do an on the fly port binding.

Now I just hope I understood your problem :-)

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