[BusyBox] xinetd?

Dan Kegel dkegel at ixiacom.com
Mon Jan 27 17:10:04 UTC 2003


Russ Dill wrote:
>>>why bother? create an /etc/inetd.d directory, add and remove files as
>>>necessary, and when you need to update inetd.conf, do cat /etc/inetd.d/*
>>>
>>>>/etc/inetd.conf. I do something similar with my inittab at boot.
>>>
>>I guess it's because somebody might edit inetd.conf and
>>expect it to stick.  Our embedded system gets to be
>>more and more like a multiuser system every day.
> 
> 
> doesn't sound like much of an embedded system to me.

It's a tad larger than the average one.

> Embedding xinetd in busybox won't make xinetd small, just compile and
> use xinetd if thats what you want to do.

I'd rather make one that takes less RAM.  Seems like
the core functionality of xinetd ought to be fairly small.

Well, if I ever get motivated, I'll see if I can write a tiny
implementation that doesn't use any more bytes than the current
busybox inetd.
- Dan







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