[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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