Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

[Matthew Dillon]

:John-Mark Gurney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:> Sheldon Hearn scribbled this message on Aug 1:
:> > Would you need these entries if inetd let you specify port numbers
:> > instead of service names?
:> I vote for allowing inetd.conf to specify a port number instead of a
:> service name...  it should be very easy to make the modification, and
:> I'm willing to do all the work, assuming no one on -committers objects..
:
:The correct way to do this is to fix getservbyname() so it accepts
:port numbers.
:
:DES
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:Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

    If we were to depend on this, it would break code compatibility with 
    other UNIXes for no good reason.   For example, someone porting inetd
    from FreeBSD to something else would not get a compatible result without
    undoing the 'fix'.

    'Fixing' getservbyname() is a really bad idea.

                                        -Matt
                                        Matthew Dillon 
                                        <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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