:John-Mark Gurney <gurne...@efn.org> 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 - d...@flood.ping.uio.no
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
<dil...@backplane.com>
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