Re: how to start ftp daemon - the whole scoop

[Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <thaths@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Binand Raj S." proclaimed:
> One of the reasons people choose to write programs that run from inetd is that
> since almost all of the network programs' startup code is the same, it is
> quite pointless for every process to execute the same instructions. Even
> though http and smtp are quite different services, the initial parts of the
> code for apache and sendmail will be essentially the same. So, this part of
> the code is separated from the actual server, and is incorporated in the
> superserver, inetd. Thus, you can forget your worries about the socket system
> call, forget about errno = EINTR and so on.

Also, system wide security can be handled by this one daemon.  No need for
ftpd, fingerd and telnetd to be individually aware of how to handle
security.

S.
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