Re: inetd Enhancements Followup

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <rmi7dq9lg6k.fsf%s1.lexort.com@localhost>,
Greg Troxel  <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
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>James Browning <jamesbrowning137%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
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>> maintainers at their own discretion. Some of you brought up the concern of
>> over-automating the system at the potential risk of the configuration system
>> becoming too opaque and administrators allowing packages to configure inetd
>> without their knowledge of what is happening. However, we believe that with
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>As I read it, that was mostly mouse@.  My take was that most of the
>concerns were about not making it super complicated and maintaining
>backwards compat.

Yes, if you don't like the new syntax don't use it; if you don't
like separate configuration files, don't create them. At the same
time don't deny others from choosing to use it, have an easier to
understand syntax[1], a safer change process, and an easier way for
3rd party packages to control services.

One can make arguments on both sides, and what one ends up choosing
depends on their taste, on what they know, and the priorities of
their goals.

Trying to convince others of ones beliefs becomes religion...

Space separated fields with positional meaning, extended by
punctuation is the current state of the art in configuration files
it seems :-( You should actually read the inetd parser source really
understand the mess.

This is FreeBSD's syntax:

       service-name
       socket-type
       protocol
       {wait|nowait}[/max-child[/max-connections-per-ip-per-minute\
	    [/max-child-per-ip]]]
       user[:group][/login-class]
       server-program
       server-program-arguments

This is ours:

       [listen-addr:]service-spec
       socket-type[:accept-filter[,arg]]
       protocol[,sndbuf=size][,rcvbuf=size]
       wait/nowait[:max]
       user[:group]
       server-program
       server program arguments


Ah, and the [,arg] is not documented in the man page, you need to read
the source.

Draw your own conclusions.

christos