Re: Use of /etc/services?

On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 10:55, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)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.
It's in FreeBSD 4-STABLE, and definitely in 4.6-RELEASE which is due out
tomorrow. (or shortly thereafter).

>
> Mike.
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