From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 31 23:30: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB9D214FB1 for ; Sat, 31 Jul 1999 23:30:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA19348; Sat, 31 Jul 1999 23:29:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37A3E944.7F28E91B@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 23:29:24 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Hamilton Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Matthew Dillon , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services References: <19990801061937.874C5135@woodstock.monkey.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jon Hamilton wrote: > No. ipfw deals with /etc/services only at startup time (any other behavior on > its part would be ridiculous). That's not entirely true, there are other situations (like adding a rule, etc.) but your point is well taken. And no, I can't provide specific examples, my point is really much simpler than that. > I think you're overestimating the cost by a considerable amount. I'm > not saying that the cost is zero, but I am saying that it's close enough > that the value of having the information *right there* outweighs the cost. Anyone interested in the information will stay interested long enough to look it up in a man page. Even if the cost to the system is very very small, I think that adding it to the file is silly when it could just as easily be added to a man page. Of course, there are other benefits to having it in a man page too. The primary one being that changes/updates to the comments don't require a change to the file, and would be picked up automatically during a make world. Now you'll have to excuse me while I go sharpen my lance... Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message