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Last active December 26, 2023 05:13
An example inetd-like socket-activated service. #systemd #inetd #systemd.socket

README

This is an example of a socket-activated per-connection service (which is usually referred to as inetd-like service). A thorough explanation can be found at http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/inetd.html.

Define a socket unit

The key point here is to specify Accept=yes, which will make the socket accept connections (behaving like inetd) and pass only the resulting connection socket to the service handler.