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                 <para>Socket units may be used to implement on-demand
                 starting of services, as well as parallelized starting
                 of services.</para>
+
+                <para>Note that the daemon software configured for
+                socket activation with socket units needs to be able
+                to accept sockets from systemd, either via systemd's
+                native socket passing interface (see
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_listen_fds</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                for details) or via the traditional
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>inetd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>-style
+                socket passing (i.e. sockets passed in via STDIN and
+                STDOUT, using <varname>StandardInput=socket</varname>
+                in the service file).</para>
         </refsect1>
 
         <refsect1>
                                 processes of this socket unit shall be
                                 killed. One of
                                 <option>control-group</option>,
-                                <option>process-group</option>,
                                 <option>process</option>,
                                 <option>none</option>.</para>