dil...@apollo.backplane.com said:
> :The correct way to do this is to fix getservbyname() so it accepts
> :port numbers. : :DES :-- :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.
I agree - unless all the BSDs agree, changing this sort of thing is
just going to disfavour FreeBSD as a development platform.
I've been stung with things like pipe() for exactly the same reasons.
IMHO, pipe() should *not* behave like socketpair() as it encourages
FreeBSD developers to write bad code :-(
--
Brian <br...@awfulhak.org> <br...@freebsd.org>
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