In message <199908022217.xaa02...@keep.lan.awfulhak.org> Brian Somers writes: : Yes, but do it the other way 'round - strtol first, if it's not all : numeric, getservbyname().
I did it getservbyname first in case there were any legacy services that were all numbers. Traditionally, this is hwo things were done with IP addresses, although a quickie survey shows it to be a mixed bag. The biggest reason for not doing getservbyname first is that it will hang (long timeout) if the databsae behind it goes away. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
