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From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
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To: des@flood.ping.uio.no, eischen@vigrid.com
Subject: Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services
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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


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