--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
+set -eux
+set -o pipefail
+
+# shellcheck source=test/units/util.sh
+. "$(dirname "$0")"/util.sh
+
+CAT_PID="$(systemd-notify --fork -- systemd-socket-activate -l 1234 --accept --inetd cat)"
+assert_eq "$(echo -n hello | socat - 'TCP:localhost:1234')" hello
+kill "$CAT_PID"
+
+# Check whether socat's ACCEPT-FD is available (introduced in v1.8)
+systemd-socket-activate -l 1234 --now socat ACCEPT-FD:3 PIPE &
+sleep 1
+jobs >/dev/null
+if kill %% &>/dev/null; then
+ systemd-socket-activate -l 1234 --now socat ACCEPT-FD:3 PIPE &
+ SOCAT_PID="$!"
+
+ # unfortunately we need to sleep since socket-activate only sends sd_notify when --accept is passed,
+ # so we can't rely on that to avoid a race.
+ sleep 1
+
+ assert_in socat "$(</proc/"$SOCAT_PID"/comm)"
+ assert_eq "$(echo -n bye | socat - 'TCP:localhost:1234')" bye
+fi
+
+# --accept is not allowed with --now
+(! systemd-socket-activate -l 1234 --accept --now cat)
+
+# Multiple fds are not allowed with --inetd
+(! systemd-socket-activate -l 1234 -l 4321 --inetd cat)