Comment by StopDisinfo910
9 days ago
Socket activation is entirely optional and is not what I would personally call "magic".
I don't think "pretending that a service is running" is a fair description of what it does however. It's just buffering. It has advantages in some case which is why it exists. It doesn't "kinda suck".
Entirely optional, but widely used. An advertised advantage is that service A that relies on B can start before or concurrently with B. Calling that "just buffering" is really not accurate.