Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 10:50:36 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, committers@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, sheldonh@uunet.co.za Subject: Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services Message-ID: <199908021650.KAA06933@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "02 Aug 1999 13:22:38 %2B0200." <xzpoggq2zr5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <xzpoggq2zr5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <199908021116.HAA06757@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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In message <xzpoggq2zr5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: : Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> 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
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