On 23 November 2015 at 03:13, Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
[snip] > Thank you. This would be absolutely great. > https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/8107 is waiting for review... and should make this happen :) > I would like to clean the inetdtap.py module of pylakes warning but since > it is broken and has no tests, I have no idea what this code is expected to > do and how end users are expecting to use it. > > > The purpose of inetdtap is to provide an 'inetd'-like server, to allow > Twisted to invoke other programs to handle incoming sockets. This is a > useful thing as a "networking swiss army knife" tool, like netcat. In > fact, it does work, after a fashion; I wrote a file like this: > > 8123 stream tcp wait glyph /bin/cat - > > and then ran this: > > put a blank line into 'rpc.conf', and then ran: > > twistd -n inetd -f sampleinetd.conf -r rpc.conf > > > and port 8123 properly became an echo server. > > Now, in order to do this, you need a /etc/services file (this is > hard-coded) that can be parsed by ServicesConf, which is _extremely_ picky, > and probably the one that your OS comes with is still broken anyway. But > this code *can* work if properly configured, and those parts can be fixed. > > I haven't run this recently, but partially only because I basically forgot > it existed :). Thanks for the reminder. > Is this info already present in the project? If not I will try to put this info somewhere in the project [snip] > I hope my suggestion makes sense and is useful. However if you'd really > like to do the compat-breaking dance I won't object; I seriously doubt > anyone is touching the RPC code. I'd prefer you don't delete the whole > module though. > > Done https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/8123 I will go with the deprecation part. Thanks for the feedback. -- Adi Roiban
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