Re: inetd and whois

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> On Aug 03, Alain Magloire <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>  >> but I'm not sure that the
>  >> current code base is the best one to start with.
>  >Why do you say this?
> Because in a day a nearly finished (I need to check I correctly
> translated the setusercontext(3) stuff in terms of linux security) the
> porting of the openbsd inetd, while merging in it features from netbsd
> and netkit, and now debian has a new inetd way better than the old one
> from netkit.
> I could not have done the same thing in the same time starting with
> inetutils code. I know that my code may not work on hurd (actually I
> have no idea why and how hurd is different), but I'm sure it's much
> simpler to make this code portable than it is to add all the features to
> the old inetutils code.

Maybe, Have you look at the inetutils/inetd code lately?

In any case, you are more then welcome to send any patches to inetutils
and work on it.