Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 19:13:45 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services Message-ID: <199908030113.TAA10897@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Aug 1999 23:17:01 BST." <199908022217.XAA02577@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> References: <199908022217.XAA02577@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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In message <199908022217.XAA02577@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> Brian Somers writes: : Yes, but do it the other way 'round - strtol first, if it's not all : numeric, getservbyname(). I did it getservbyname first in case there were any legacy services that were all numbers. Traditionally, this is hwo things were done with IP addresses, although a quickie survey shows it to be a mixed bag. The biggest reason for not doing getservbyname first is that it will hang (long timeout) if the databsae behind it goes away. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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