From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 2 9:51:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D24E114FA1; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 09:51:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA87721; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:50:31 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id KAA06933; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:50:36 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199908021650.KAA06933@harmony.village.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services Cc: Daniel Eischen , gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, committers@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, sheldonh@uunet.co.za In-reply-to: Your message of "02 Aug 1999 13:22:38 +0200." References: <199908021116.HAA06757@pcnet1.pcnet.com> Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 10:50:36 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: : Daniel Eischen writes: : > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: : > > The correct way to do this is to fix getservbyname() so it accepts : > > port numbers. : > Are you sure this is what you want? I'm 100% positive that I want this. : > It may allow an application to : > use a port number that would otherwise be invalid. I think he's saying that you could run telnet on port 25, which is reserved for mail. I say that I don't care if it allows this. In fact, I want to be able to do things like that... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message