Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

[Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca>]

On Apr 6, 2006, at 6:37 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:

> Why can't the TCPMUX listener just bind the correct application to  
> the TCB
> (after figuring out what the appropriate application is), and then  
> forget
> about the connection, leaving it entirely to the application to  
> deal with?
> All packets which belong to that connection will automatically go  
> to that
> TCB, and thence to the application, with no second layer of demux  
> needed.
> Am I missing something?

On BSD and Solaris you can just pass the file descriptor from the new  
connection to the already running server.

--lyndon

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