At the interactive python prompt i did/got the following:
bash-2.04$ ./python Python 2.4 (#1, Jan 29 2005, 10:31:35) [GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (release)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import socket
>>> socket.getservbyname('daytime', 'tcp')
13
# The 13 looks ok but look what happen # when i asked only for the service, like
# the line that fails in test_socket.
>>> socket.getservbyname('daytime') Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
socket.error: service/proto not found
>>>
Hmm, when the second argument is omitted, the system call looks like:
getservbyname("daytime", NULL);Based on "man getservbyname" on my Linux PC, that should give the behaviour we want - any protocol will match.
However:
Linux 2.6.4-52-default (Suse 9.1) Glibc 2.3.3 gcc 3.3.3
So it may be that your older platform doesn't have this behaviour - I'd be very interested in what 'man getservbyname' has to say.
Cheers, Nick.
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