bringing /etc/services up to date

Drew Broadley drew at corrupt.co.nz
Wed Jul 7 04:13:31 PDT 2004


Colin Percival wrote:

>  I've put together a patch to bring /etc/services up to date with
>almost a decade of IANA port assignments.  Unfortunately, this
>turned out to be rather larger than I expected: It adds 6400 lines,
>and increases the size of /etc/services from 73 kB to 327 kB.
>  Is anyone going to be very unhappy if I go ahead and commit this?
>
>Colin Percival
>  
>
What are the netstat calls to /etc/services like with the update, any 
performance decrease ?

(I cannot think of any other application that uses them off the top of 
my head)

- Drew


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