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[openbeosnetteam] Re: our package

  • From: Lars Hansson <lars-openbeos-net@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:29:55 +0800
v r wrote:
'services' is not that small but I think it's unnecessary big on Unix,
> usually a very small subset of listed services is used.
The 'services' file is not intended as a list of services that are used on a particular system but as a list of 'port -> name' mappings for known services, many of which are allocated by IANA. However, the mappings dont *have* to be in that file since they're usually only accessed thru api calls (get_servce_by_name() or some such, cant remember exactly) and the data itself could be stored somewhere else without breaking POSIX or any application.


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Lars Hansson







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