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From Michael Alan Dorman
Subject Re: Use of /etc/services?
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Msg-id 87zny76q3h.fsf@amanda.mallet-assembly.org
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In response to Re: Use of /etc/services?  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Use of /etc/services?  (Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>)
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> 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?

Debian GNU/Linux is, or at least will be for the imminent 3.0 release.

Mike.

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