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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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listen — Network Listener Daemon

Synopsis

/usr/lib/saf/listen [-m devstem] net-spec
					

Description

The listen process listens to a network for service requests, accepts requests when they arrive, and invokes servers in response to those service requests. The network listener process can be used with any connection-oriented network (more precisely, with any connection-oriented transport provider) that conforms to the Transport Layer Interface (TLI) Specification.

The listener internally generates a path name for the minor device for each connection; it is this path name that is used in the utmpx entry for a service (changed from utmp in the Solaris ...

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