conf/53077: Update /etc/services 4031

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 02:39:05PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Doug Barton, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> Please see the extensive discussion of this topic in the archives.
> Making the db is the easy part... converting all consumers of that
> information to read it from the db is not.

Shouldn't (most, anyway) consumer use getservby*() to access it?

Presumably, just making the db and converting those functions would catch
most things using it; the ones that insist on hand-rolling lookups could
continue to read the flat file, just as there's probably plenty of
programs out there that still manually parse a flat /etc/passwd.  Less
efficient, of course, but no less so than everything already is now.

Are there actually so many programs not using getservby*(), that just
converting that in libc wouldn't yield gains significant enough to be
worthwhile?


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