I mentioned this as a possibility. If I have to I will. But I would rather that the code could determine it on its own.

Even without passing parameters I could write a dummy script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
exec "MyRealProg.pl --proto=udp"
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Course, this would be a double exec.

Is there any way to do it (suppose I wasn't in inetd and I was passed some fileno's of sockets to connect to -- is there a way to determine?)

my @a=qw(random brilliant braindead); print $a[rand(@a)];