John L Fjellstad wrote: > Dirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>I know inetd forwards a programms (servers) stdout to the client... but >>where does it forward the requests from a client to? It's not stdin.. >> >> >>It there any simple example server available that was written to work >>with inetd? > > > There is Stephens' UNIX Network Prgramming, vol 1, 2nd edition. > > To summarize: > inetd listen to some given port (given by /etc/inetd.conf). > When a connection happens, inetd forks the server. The child process > closes all the file descriptos except for the new socket connection. It > call dup2() three times, duplicating 0, 1, 2 (stdin, stout, > stderr). Closes the socket. Child exec() the server. The server > therefore uses stdin, stdout, and stderr to communicate with the other > side. > At the parent, the parent (inetd) closes the socket. > > I think proftpd can work with inetd. >
that's exactly how i do it... but somehow my server does not get an eof() from stdin :-( he reads the http request from stdin but continues forever trying to get more stuff from it... Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
