On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 02:04:38PM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > > John Levon suggests that the files name service switch backend should > > use two separate services files: /etc/services (editable) and > > /etc/services.iana (not editable). > > I wouldn't do that. I seem to recall some swilly start-up scripts for > Java applications that grep needed things out of /etc/services -- > because Java inexplicably lacks getservent-family functions. (How you > can claim to have TCP/IP support but lack basic functionality like > that is a mystery to me. I guess nobody does anything like real > networking there ...)
Yuck. That's a ... shame. I'd still prefer to break this than add 90 seconds minimum to Solaris 11 first boot time. regards john _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
