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Date:      Thu, 08 Jul 2004 12:57:38 +1200
From:      Drew Broadley <drew@corrupt.co.nz>
To:        Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
Cc:        Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
Subject:   Re: bringing /etc/services up to date
Message-ID:  <40EC9C02.9020107@corrupt.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <57C54530-D054-11D8-8006-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com>
References:  <57C54530-D054-11D8-8006-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com>

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Oliver Eikemeier wrote:

> Drew Broadley wrote:
>
>> Colin Percival wrote:
>>
>>>  I've put together a patch to bring /etc/services up to date with
>>> almost a decade of IANA port assignments.  Unfortunately, this
>>> turned out to be rather larger than I expected: It adds 6400 lines,
>>> and increases the size of /etc/services from 73 kB to 327 kB.
>>>  Is anyone going to be very unhappy if I go ahead and commit this?
>>>
>>> Colin Percival
>>>
>> What are the netstat calls to /etc/services like with the update, any 
>> performance decrease ?
>>
>> (I cannot think of any other application that uses them off the top 
>> of my head)
>
>
> inetd(8) for example.
>
> -Oliver

Posted that STRAIGHT after :)

- Drew



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