[openbeosnetteam] Re: our package

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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