Software Posted to net.sources

[Guy Harris]

> 	I have posted a program to net.sources call netd.
> 	With it you can add network services easily without
> 	the cost of an idle background process per service.
> 
> 	It can also be used to eliminate most of the 4.2 server
> 	processes that run in the background started by /etc/rc
> 	and /etc/rc.local.

This is the same thing that Berkeley put in in "4.3BSD" (or whatever it'll
be called when it comes out), and which UNET also had.  Berkeley called
it "inetd", and they talk about it in their performance paper that was
given at Salt Lake City.

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy