Re: inetd script in python?

From: Nick Craig-Wood (ncw_at_axis.demon.co.uk)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: 27 Feb 2004 18:30:03 GMT

Jan <jan.kesten@web.de> wrote:
> So far I read about that I could use stdin and stdout for
> communication since inetd handles the socket. And I read that I
> could use socket.fromfd to get a socket object to work with. But
> both do not work, I tried to send just a greeting back to the
> client or getting some text - nothing.

You should find something simple like this works - inetd is supposed
to make writing internet daemons easy!

import sys

while 1:
    bfr = sys.stdin.read(1024)
    sys.stdout.write(bfr)

You can then test the code on the command line by typing stuff to it
and seeing it print its output.

Beware buffering though! 

-- 
Nick Craig-Wood
ncw@axis.demon.co.uk

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