bringing /etc/services up to date
Cyrille Lefevre
clefevre-lists at 9online.fr
Wed Jul 7 05:39:54 PDT 2004
"John Merryweather Cooper" <johnmary at adelphia.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 04:12, Drew Broadley wrote:
> > 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?
> > >
> > 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)
>
> ipfw uses /etc/services if you use, e.g., "domain" instead of "53" in
> your rules. I would hope any application that seriously used
> /etc/services would read it once, store it in some speedily accessible
> form, and work from there. As a flat, human-created file, /etc/services
> would not be my candidate for efficient program access.
except if you implement some kind of nscd (name service cache daemon) :)
Cyrille Lefevre.
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