A chunk of data that a WWW server stores in your browser. It is sent
back to the server when you contact it again. Gnatsweb (see
Gnatsweb) uses cookies to store your login information,
preferences, and named queries.
gnats.el
gnats mode for (X)Emacs.
gnatsd
The gnats daemon (server program).
Gnatsweb
A WWW interface to gnats.
port
A communication endpoint of various IP based protocols, notably TCP and
UDP. A server program waits for connections ("listens") on a port, and
a client program connects to this port.
IANA (the Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority) maintains a
list of port numbers
registered for certain purposes.
PR
Short for “Problem Report”. An entry in a gnats database.
send-pr
A command line tool that sends a new report by e-mail.
super server
A super server (sometimes also called "super daemon") is a daemon (=
UNIX server process) that waits for connections on the ports of various
server programs and starts the corresponding server when a connection is
made. This way, there is only one server process for a set of services
(instead of one for each service), but each service in the set is
available to its clients.
The most common super servers are inetd (the "InterNET Daemon"
that comes with many UNIX installations) and
xinetd (the "eXtended InterNET Daemon").