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+Socket Activation
+-----------------
+
+While waitress does not support the various implementations of socket activation,
+for example using systemd or launchd, it is prepared to receive pre-bound sockets
+from init systems, process and socket managers, or other launchers that can provide
+pre-bound sockets.
+
+The following shows a code example starting waitress with two Internet sockets pre-bound sockets.
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    import socket
+    import waitress
+
+
+    def app(environ, start_response):
+        content_length = environ.get('CONTENT_LENGTH', None)
+        if content_length is not None:
+            content_length = int(content_length)
+        body = environ['wsgi.input'].read(content_length)
+        content_length = str(len(body))
+        start_response(
+            '200 OK',
+            [('Content-Length', content_length), ('Content-Type', 'text/plain')]
+        )
+        return [body]
+
+
+    if __name__ == '__main__':
+        sockets = [
+            socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM),
+            socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)]
+        sockets[0].bind(('127.0.0.1', 8080))
+        sockets[1].bind(('127.0.0.1', 9090))
+        waitress.serve(app, sockets=sockets)
+        for socket in sockets:
+            socket.close()
+
+Generally, to implement socket activation for a given init system, a wrapper
+script uses the init system specific libraries to retrieve the sockets from
+the init system. Afterwards it starts waitress, passing the sockets with the parameter
+``sockets``. Note that the sockets have to be bound, which all init systems
+supporting socket activation do.
+