[openbeos] Re: protoent
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:03:38 +0200 CEST
"François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> [12:59] <CIA-3> axeld * r18247 /haiku/branches/team/network/new_stack
> /
> kits_network/dns/irs/lcl_pr.c:
> [...]
> [12:59] <CIA-3> In any way, I don't really get the rationale behind
> this protoent stuff.
>
> How about, for statistical or information tools to display stuff for
> protocols they don't explicitely know about... (netstat, ...)
> Or apps to get protocols as string argument... like, some apps allow
> options like -listen tcp|unix|... it both avoids having to hardcode
> them and allows some extensibility as long as the protocol has the
> same
> semantics as the usual ones.
Okay, that makes at least some sense :-)
I saw its use in ping.c to get the ICMP protocol number, and that's
definitely completely useless.
Bye,
Axel.
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