upstart socket activation

[Scott James Remnant]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Lennart Poettering
<mzhcfgneg at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 16.03.11 06:13, Clint Byrum (clint at ubuntu.com) wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 11:17 +0100, Steffen Barszus wrote:
>> > I have read about socket activation feature, and i'm quite
>> > confused now and would like to have a definitive answer.
>> >
>> > Is the socket activation:
>> > a) xinetd like: start the provider of the socket, once the socket is
>> > accessed ? Anything special done until the provider is available ?
>>
>> Yes its like xinetd, though instead of an accepted socket being
>> available, you're getting a listening socket with a connection ready to
>> accept, so most daemons (no daemons?) won't support this just yet.
>
> BTW, what's the API for this looking like? How are the fd's passed to
> the daemon?
>
>From the bridge process to the init daemon?

D-Bus FD passing.

Scott