On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 09:28:47AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> The detail you point out is IP-specific.  On the other hand,
> the 'services' file is protocol independent (yes, it mostly 
> only contains IP-related entries nowadays), and valid port
> number range could be different in some protocols.  So,
> it's not really appropriate (IMO) to change this man page.
> (See by the way ip(7), where the 'u_int16_t' data type makes
> clear the 16-bit nature of the port number for IP).

ok, thanks for the explanation.

Andrew


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