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From: sm@cadre.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Software Posted to net.sources
Message-ID: <253@cadre.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 10:47:30 EST
Article-I.D.: cadre.253
Posted: Fri Feb  8 10:47:30 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 12-Feb-85 05:42:46 EST
References: <240@cadre.ARPA> <427@rlgvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: sm@cadre.ARPA (Sean McLinden)
Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pgh.
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Summary: 

In article <427@rlgvax.UUCP> guy@rlgvax.UUCP writes:
>> 	I have posted a program to net.sources call netd.
>> 	With it you can add network services easily without
>> 	the cost of an idle background process per service.
>> 
>> 	It can also be used to eliminate most of the 4.2 server
>> 	processes that run in the background started by /etc/rc
>> 	and /etc/rc.local.
>
>This is the same thing that Berkeley put in in "4.3BSD" (or whatever it'll
>be called when it comes out), and which UNET also had.  Berkeley called
>it "inetd", and they talk about it in their performance paper that was
>given at Salt Lake City.
>
>	Guy Harris
>	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy

If the Berkeley version of "inetd" is anything like the Sun Microsystems
"inetd", I wouldn't wait for it to come out. "netd", as released by Russell,
has a number of improvements over the Sun "inetd" which are documented
in the associated manual pages. Since I don't know what "inetd" from
Berkeley is going to look like I can only wait for the announcement
of 4.2++ (whenever that may be). I doubt they would call it 4.3 since
it seems that all that they are really doing is delivering what they
actually promised for 4.2.

Sean Mclinden