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From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
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To: des@flood.ping.uio.no, gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu
Subject: Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> 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.

Are you sure this is what you want?  It may allow an application to
use a port number that would otherwise be invalid.

Dan Eischen
eischen@vigrid.com


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