Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cadre.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!idis!cadre!sm 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. Lines: 29 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