Re: [bug-inetutils] [patch] inetd: set environment variables for remote host, ip and local port

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Dirk Jagdmann wrote:
> I have just developed some very simple servers (with shell scripts)
> which are run via inetd. For logging purposes I wanted to have the
> remote hostname, ip and local port available in those shell scripts and
> have made an extension to inetd which will put this information into the
> environment on the forked process.
[snip]
> +2006-07-21  Dirk Jagdmann  <address@hidden>
> +
> +     * inetd.c (main): set environment variables inetd_remotehost,
> +     inetd_remoteip, inetd_port to corresponding values from client who
> +     connected to inetd.
> +
[snip]

I wonder if it would be better to use the same environment variables as
"tcpserver" from ucspi-tcp by Dan Bernstein. See:

  http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/environment.html

Bye, Rich =]

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