Hallo, Jonathan!

*** Am Sonntag 28. Juli 1996 um 22:16 schrieb Jonathan de Boyne Pollard an
Brett Maxfield:

 JdBP>   Write a daemon that can be invoked from inetd, update the information
 JdBP> in  the inetd configuration file, and let inetd do all of the hard work
 JdBP> of  accepting the connections for you.

writing daemons for inetd is a dirty piece of work with OS/2. This is
unlike the Unix approach. OS/2 inetd frees the port handle it sends to the
sub process, and you have to use undocumented calls to re-import the port
handle so that it is usable with further TCP/IP api calls. Mattes
elaborated on this topic some time ago on the emx mailing list
(emx{at}iaehv.nl). I will try to find the article and post it here.

Afair, the reason for this behaviour was that inetd doesn't track the
status of the child and frees the port handle in advance to not miss
freeing it when the child doesn't terminate correctly.

It is no big problem to accept() connections, then start a thread with the
new porthandle.


Tschau...Thomas

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