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To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, hackers@FreeBSD.org,
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Subject: Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 02 Aug 1999 13:05:17 +0200
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John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> writes:
> Sheldon Hearn scribbled this message on Aug 1:
> > Would you need these entries if inetd let you specify port numbers
> > instead of service names?
> I vote for allowing inetd.conf to specify a port number instead of a
> service name...  it should be very easy to make the modification, and
> I'm willing to do all the work, assuming no one on -committers objects..

The correct way to do this is to fix getservbyname() so it accepts
port numbers.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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