Xinetd will definitely be faster way than coding your daemon in PHP. You have to consider many other things as well: - do your worker processes run under various UIDs (do they do setuid/setgid)? - do your workers die after processing each request/client or do they process multiple connections? - do you need inter-worker communication? - resource locking issues, etc? What is your goal, the function of your daemon/socket server? You can find PHP socket server implementations around the net already: - Nanoserv being one: http://nanoserv.si.kz/ - something of "mine": https://github.com/bostjan/PHP-application-server Of course, it is always a good excercise to write your own. But that is not for faint hearted :) b. On 28 March 2011 18:25, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to bat around some pros / cons of selecting xinetd to implement a > socket server. From my perspective the list is something like this: > > xinetd pros > . no need to rewrite forking functionality, 'server' can be written as > simple php script > . forking potentially faster than php-based implementation > > xinetd cons > . time tradeoff learning xinetd configuration vs coding in support > directly > in php implementation > . potentially less maintainable depending on staff, likely php dev team > more capable of maintaining 100% php solution > > Interested in your thoughts! > > -nathan >
