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Originally Posted by knc1
Either inetd or one of the more modern "improved versions" of the Internet Super Server
This standard *nix utility starts network services (daemons) "on demand" - if/when they are not in use, they don't run.
Ref: http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-inetd.html
A use case:
You want an httpd daemon (service in en_M$) to run for changing settings remotely, but you don't want to take up the RAM or CPU cycles of having it idling in the background.
This is a good case of using inetd - the httpd daemon doesn't run until you try to connect to it - then inetd kicks in and fires up a copy for your connection to use.
Can be used for any "on demand" network service. |
Seems it has been included in Busybox for awhile now:
Code:
Author: Glenn L McGrath <bug1@ihug.co.nz>
Date: Sun Feb 9 06:51:14 2003 +0000
New applet, inetd, make httpd features more configurable, update authors, last_patch_80
from Vladimir N. Oleynik
Which doesn't mean it was included in the Kindle Busybox build - but re-building Busybox with that feature enabled would be the smallest memory footprint way to provide it.