Re: bringing /etc/services up to date

From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier_at_fillmore-labs.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 22:29:27 +0200
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?
>>
>> 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)

inetd(8) for example.

-Oliver
Received on Wed Jul 07 2004 - 18:28:56 UTC

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