> On Nov 23, 2015, at 04:29, Adi Roiban <a...@roiban.ro> wrote: > > > On 23 November 2015 at 03:13, Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com > <mailto:gl...@twistedmatrix.com>> wrote: > > [snip] > > > Thank you. This would be absolutely great. > > https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/8107 > <https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/8107> is waiting for review... and > should make this happen :)
Cool. No promises on the review but I have it in good authority the queue is quite short lately :). > >> 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 It's in `twistd --help´; I'm not sure where else it belongs. > [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 > <https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/8123> > > I will go with the deprecation part. > > Thanks for the feedback. > > -- > Adi Roiban > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
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