> How about adding a concurrency limit in inetd so that only a
> specified number of simultaneous invocations of each service may be
> started?

Seems to be to me _asking_ for a DoS attack (though I suppose such
attacks are possible anyway).

Nothing wrong with making the capability available, though.

> And ofcourse change the wait/nowait[:max] parameter in inetd.conf to
> wait/nowait[:max-rate][:max-child].

This is ambiguous; I'd recommend wait/nowait[:[max-rate][:max-child]],
or perhaps wait/nowait[:[var=value[,var=value[,var=value...]]]] with
bare :number supported for compatability; the :number:number is not
very extensible.

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