Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 04:38:36 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper <johnmary@adelphia.net> To: Drew Broadley <drew@corrupt.co.nz> Cc: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Subject: Re: bringing /etc/services up to date Message-ID: <1089200316.55099.10.camel@68-169-191-150.losaca.adelphia.net> In-Reply-To: <40EBDA99.5020309@corrupt.co.nz> References: <6.1.0.6.1.20040707033352.03dbca18@popserver.sfu.ca> <40EBDA99.5020309@corrupt.co.nz>
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On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 04:12, Drew Broadley wrote: > Colin Percival wrote: > > > I've put together a patch to bring /etc/services up to date with > >almost a decade of IANA port assignments. Unfortunately, this > >turned out to be rather larger than I expected: It adds 6400 lines, > >and increases the size of /etc/services from 73 kB to 327 kB. > > Is anyone going to be very unhappy if I go ahead and commit this? > > > >Colin Percival > > > > > What are the netstat calls to /etc/services like with the update, any > performance decrease ? > > (I cannot think of any other application that uses them off the top of > my head) > > - Drew ipfw uses /etc/services if you use, e.g., "domain" instead of "53" in your rules. I would hope any application that seriously used /etc/services would read it once, store it in some speedily accessible form, and work from there. As a flat, human-created file, /etc/services would not be my candidate for efficient program access. jmc
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