[uClinux-dev] #if 0 in inetd start_child()

[David McCullough]

Jivin John Williams lays it down ...
> Hi Mike,
> 
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >the latest inetd does not seem to work for me with rcp/rsh ... if i change 
> >the '#if 0' to '#if 1' in start_child() (the stderr/stdout redirection), 
> >things work
> >
> >any idea the history behind this block of code ?
> 
> We found and reported the same thing last July.  I haven't done enough 
> testing to know if fixing this for rsh breaks inetd for anything else, 
> so we haven't committed it internally yet either.

It went in around the time of the switch to fnord, so it is possible
related to that in some way.

I am still surprised that rcp/rsh require both stdout and stderr to be
joined somehow.

Cheers,
Davidm

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