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by JdeBP 3677 days ago
That is untrue. Read about "wait"/"nowait" (in the xinetd and inetd manuals, for starters).
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justinsaccount 3674 days ago
Ah, I must have been thinking of something like

https://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpserver.html

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JdeBP 3674 days ago
Then you'll enjoy reading about the nosh toolset and s6-networking, which both separate the listen-accept model into separate programs and have the ability to invoke "wait" servers with the listening socket.

* http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwa... * http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/UC... * http://skarnet.org/software/s6-networking/

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