[systemd-devel] systemd.sockets vs xinetd

[Michael Chapman]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2022, Yolo von BNANA wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> i read the following in an LPIC 1 Book:
> 
> " If you’ve done any investigation into systemd.sockets, you may believe 
> that it makes super servers like xinetd obsolete. At this point in time, 
> that is not true. The xinetd super server offers more functionality than 
> systemd.sockets can currently deliver. "
> 
> I thought, that this information could be deprecated.
> 
> Is systemd.sockets at this point in time a good replacement for xined?
> 
> Is there a good resource to dive deeper into it?
> 
> 
> Yolo

Surely it would be up to the author of that book to justify that claim?

They say it "offers more functionality". Do they say anything more than 
that... like precisely what functionality they're talking about?