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. -- - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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