No idea, not my script. Socat does support this kind of syntax, which would seem better suited in this case. socat -v -v TCP-LISTEN:8080,reuseaddr,fork SYST

No idea, not my script. Socat does support this kind of syntax, which would seem better suited in this case. socat -v -v TCP-LISTEN:8080,reuseaddr,fork SYSTEM:/some/script It also has a settable max-children so you can put some bounds on it. I did post another comment where I shared my gawk webserver, but I'm not using socat.