John Levon wrote:
> 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.
>
It sounds, more and more, like the right answer is to fix the brain
damaged script. Yeah, it creates some burden for testing, but all the
other courses of action sound like they are distinctly inferior.
I'm rather severely opposed to breakup of /etc/services. At a minimum,
the additional ARC overhead for such would probably far outstrip the
cost of additional testing.
-- Garrett
> regards
> john
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