Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 22:35:13 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, hackers@FreeBSD.org, committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services Message-ID: <199908022135.WAA00661@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Aug 1999 07:36:37 PDT." <199908021436.HAA12920@apollo.backplane.com>
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dillon@apollo.backplane.com said:
> :The correct way to do this is to fix getservbyname() so it accepts
> :port numbers. : :DES :-- :Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no
>
>
> If we were to depend on this, it would break code compatibility with
> other UNIXes for no good reason. For example, someone porting inetd
> from FreeBSD to something else would not get a compatible result without
> undoing the 'fix'.
>
> 'Fixing' getservbyname() is a really bad idea.
I agree - unless all the BSDs agree, changing this sort of thing is
just going to disfavour FreeBSD as a development platform.
I've been stung with things like pipe() for exactly the same reasons.
IMHO, pipe() should *not* behave like socketpair() as it encourages
FreeBSD developers to write bad code :-(
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@OpenBSD.org>
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