inetd script in python?

[Donn Cave]

In article <slrnc3v1ka.mk5.ncw at irishsea.home.craig-wood.com>,
 Nick Craig-Wood <ncw at axis.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Jan <jan.kesten at 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!

Indeed, to the point where the code you propose would not
work when you test it the way you propose.

   Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu