:> Sheldon Hearn <sheld...@uunet.co.za> writes: :> > I plan to mention in the comments for each service in /etc/services, the :> > latest RFC describing the service. :> :> Good idea. : : Hmmmm... I'm not sure what this gets us. Wouldn't it be better to :place this kind of information in the man page that you suggest below? As :often as /etc/services gets read, do we really want to bloat it with :non-functional information? :... :Doug
I kinda like the idea of putting the RFC numbers in comments in /etc/services. It makes the comments more meaningful. : If you really want to improve /etc/services, the first commit :should be to delete all the extraneous whitespace at the end of the lines. : :23$ grep -c ' $' /etc/services :173 : :25$ grep -c '^I$' /etc/services :97 :... It would be nice if we DBM'd /etc/services. /etc/services is 61KB+ now, I think DBMing it in a manner similar to how some of the other system files which are DBM'd would be worthwhile. -Matt Matthew Dillon <dil...@backplane.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message