Re: bringing /etc/services up to date

"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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