bringing /etc/services up to date

[Harti Brandt]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Charles Swiger wrote:

CS>Lots of systems implement some external caching system (nscd, lookupd, etc)
CS>which those library calls access rather than iterating through the
CS>/etc/services file and related sources directly within each process which
CS>calls getservby*().  I'm not sure whether the sources for Solaris' nscd are
CS>handy, but I believe the sources for lookupd and friends are at:
CS>
CS>http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/opendirectory/

I remember someone from Russia or Ukraina offering something like nscd at least
twice during the last 12 month. What happend to that project?

harti