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Date:      Mon, 2 Aug 1999 12:27:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        committers@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908021226580.11428-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
In-Reply-To: <199908021721.LAA07176@harmony.village.org>

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On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote:

> I don't think we should change getportbyname.  If the getportbyname
> fails, see if a strtol returns a number, and if so use that.  I don't
> see what is so hard about doing that.

I agree. The change should be made in inetd, not in getportbyname()

> If someone wants to run a service on a port that it wasn't desinged
> for, they can still do it today.  I don't see what the argument
> against this change could possibly be.  There is no evil here.

Changing getportbyname() would be, which is what was discussed before.

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