[BusyBox] xinetd?

[Dan Kegel]

Russ Dill wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 16:07, Dan Kegel wrote:
>>So it might be nice for busybox to support xinetd,
>>where each service is controlled by a file in /etc/xinetd.d.
>>Then our start and stop scripts can just create and
>>destroy files in that directory, which is a lot easier
>>to script.
> 
> 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.

- Dan