Re: [coldsync-hackers] Re: What goes in inetd.conf?

[Andrew Arensburger <arensb+CShackers at ooblick dot com>]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 03:48:14PM +0100, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
>  On 03-Set-02 at 11:38:13,
>   Rich Bowen <rbowen@rcbowen.com> wrote:
> > Ohhhh. I see. I assumed that daemon mode meant that it would actually run
> > as a daemon, and stay running. I misunderstood. Thanks for the tip.

	Not all daemons run all the time. 'ftpd' doesn't, for
instance. Look at all the "nowait" daemons in /etc/inetd.conf.

> I think such a feature needs to be implemented in the near future... anyone
> volunteers for it?

	The reason I didn't do it that way in the first place is that
a long-running daemon will inevitably leak memory; if it exits after
syncing, at least the memory that it leaks will be reclaimed. Plus,
there might be issues if it caches /etc/coldsync.conf or /etc/palms
information.
	It's possible to avoid this by having the daemon fork() for
new requests, and make sure that the long-running part doesn't leak
memory or retain transient information, but I'm wondering what the
real issue is. Was there a serious problem getting it to run from
/etc/ttys (or /etc/inittab under SysV-derivatives)?

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