[Mono-list] RE: Writing daemons in C#

[Erik Bågfors]

On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 11:12, Pablo Baena wrote:
> There's plenty of documentation out there about writing daemons. This
> article shows you how to make them in Linux, NT and Java 
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/sockets/understanding-sockets.html
> 
> Basically it is: 
> 
> Listen on a port; 
> while (true) { 
> Accept a connection 
> Fork -start a new thread- 
> } 

This is  offtopic but I have to disagree.  There is nothing that says
that a daemon must listen to a port.  It must listen for something but
there is nothing that say it's even TCP.  That's just the most usual
case.

/Erik
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