XML-RPC server via xinetd

[Jos Vos]

On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 10:13:19PM +0200, Martin P. Hellwig wrote:

> Isn't this just a standard daemon functionality?

What is "a standard daemon"? :-)

> So if you could wrap up your program in a daemon like fashion (e.g. 
> http://homepage.hispeed.ch/py430/python/daemon.py) and then point the 
> xinetd configuration to the right script, it should just work?

In fact, the standard use *is* a daemon (that is, accepting connections
on a certain port) and I want it to be *not* a daemon.  For the daemon
method I use something similar to "daemonize", but now I want it to
*not* do the binds etc. to listen on a port.

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).

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