[eeperson]

I think socket activation makes sense as part of the int process because of the 'activation' part. That's basically what you rely on init systems to do.

For more details about the advantages of this can be found here[1] and here[2].

[1] - http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/socket-activation.html [2] - http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/inetd.html