Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 18:07:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services Message-ID: <199907290107.SAA65216@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907281735570.15263-100000@dt011n65.san.rr.com>
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:> Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> writes:
:> > I plan to mention in the comments for each service in /etc/services, the
:> > latest RFC describing the service.
:>
:> Good idea.
:
: Hmmmm... I'm not sure what this gets us. Wouldn't it be better to
:place this kind of information in the man page that you suggest below? As
:often as /etc/services gets read, do we really want to bloat it with
:non-functional information?
:...
:Doug
I kinda like the idea of putting the RFC numbers in comments in
/etc/services. It makes the comments more meaningful.
: If you really want to improve /etc/services, the first commit
:should be to delete all the extraneous whitespace at the end of the lines.
:
:23$ grep -c ' $' /etc/services
:173
:
:25$ grep -c '^I$' /etc/services
:97
:...
It would be nice if we DBM'd /etc/services. /etc/services is 61KB+ now,
I think DBMing it in a manner similar to how some of the other system
files which are DBM'd would be worthwhile.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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