Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

[Sheldon Hearn]

On 02 Aug 1999 13:19:01 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> > Would this not still require modifications to /etc/services for services
> > not already mentioned in that file?
> 
> Allow me to re-quote the message I answered:
> 
> > I vote for allowing inetd.conf to specify a port number instead of a
> > service name...

I think that's exactly what Daniel's getting at.

If we fix this in inetd, we get what we want. If we fix this in
getservbyport() we may get something that we don't want, namely
applications that relay on the existing behaviour of the function stop
working as intended.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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