Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

[Bill Fumerola]

On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote:

> I don't think we should change getportbyname.  If the getportbyname
> fails, see if a strtol returns a number, and if so use that.  I don't
> see what is so hard about doing that.

I agree. The change should be made in inetd, not in getportbyname()

> If someone wants to run a service on a port that it wasn't desinged
> for, they can still do it today.  I don't see what the argument
> against this change could possibly be.  There is no evil here.

Changing getportbyname() would be, which is what was discussed before.

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