Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 07:30:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: des@flood.ping.uio.no, eischen@vigrid.com Cc: committers@FreeBSD.org, gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org, sheldonh@uunet.co.za Subject: Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services Message-ID: <199908021130.HAA08074@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > It may allow an application to > > use a port number that would otherwise be invalid. > > Please elaborate. I don't have any specific applications in mind :) But suppose an application (for whatever reason) only wants to allow selection of certain service names. A user could type in any port number that was in /etc/services, and the application would use it. Are you also going to allow getservbyport to lookup names? Dan Eischen eischen@vigrid.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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