On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:51:13AM +0000, David Malone wrote: > > I would like to commit the following patch. It changes the port from > > discard to syslog and documents the dependency. I choose syslog because > > it really does need to be in /etc/services on most machines since it > > starts before NIS. I'll also file a PR against inetd in hopes that > > someone gets board enough to fix it some day. > > getaddrinfo can also accept numeric service names (ie. port numbers > in the case of UDP/TCP). I wonder if it would be better to just > replace the service name with "1" or some such? I guess that would > also fix your problem.
Nope, I tried that. It turns out there's an annoying edge case that
makes it not work in this case (from line 496):
* check for special cases. (1) numeric servname is disallowed if
* socktype/protocol are left unspecified. (2) servname is disallowed
* for raw and other inet{,6} sockets.
The real problem is that we should either not use getaddrinfo to make
sockaddrs or we should do it on demand when we actually have what we
need (i.e. a service name and protocol).
-- Brooks
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