A listener is used to listen for new inbound connections, then kick off something whose job it is to do the communications across that connection.
Eg for tcpip, it creates a server socket and listens for an inbound connection attempt, at which point it does an accept and schedules a thread to initiate the connection+flow msgs.
Note Unix can use for example inetd to do similar functionality.
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