Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > Since we now have an official entry in /etc/services, shouldn't we be able
> > > to make use of it, by using getservbyname() if a nonnumeric port number is
> > > specified?
> >
> > Is any OS actually shipping us in /etc/services?
>
> NetBSD will be, as of 1.7, though the 1.7 release is a while away yet.
> (Sorry, I didn't find out about this in time to get it into for 1.6,
> which is just about to be released.)
Sure, then let's start using getservbyname(), if it works.
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