[syslinux] Issue with running tftpd-hpa in inetd mode?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Jan 30 11:15:17 PST 2014


On 01/30/2014 11:09 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> 
> Yeah, I get this part.  I think I misunderstood what xinetd was doing - I
> thought it was waiting for tftpd parent to exit and not processing
> anything else.  So xinetd is ignoring tftp port during this sequence, and
> any new requests come in and are serviced by the parent tftpd which spawns
> new tftpd children to do the heavy lifting.  If nothing new comes in for
> 900 seconds, the parent exits, xinetd re-enables tftp and life goes on?
> 

Yes, that's the idea.

	-hpa




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