Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Xinetd" in English language version.
[...] the superserver (also called a metaserver) [...] listens on multiple network ports and starts the appropriate service when a client connection arrives for that port. The most widely used superserver program is called inetd, for Internet daemon. Another superserver that is gaining in popularity is xinetd, for extended Internet daemon [...].
Because of the way it operates, xinetd (as well as inetd) is also referred to as a super-server. (...) So far, the only reason for the existence of a super-server was to conserve system resources by avoiding to fork a lot of processes which might be dormant for most of their lifetime.
Because of the way it operates, xinetd (as well as inetd) is also referred to as a super-server. (...) So far, the only reason for the existence of a super-server was to conserve system resources by avoiding to fork a lot of processes which might be dormant for most of their lifetime.
