From: chad <yandros@MIT.EDU>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Service names on machines with bad service files
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:25:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38015A78-89EB-4C10-8BBF-84A33E639599@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87obyg9wr3.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
On Sep 19, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Chong Yidong wrote:
>
> I'd rather use just 993. Doing (or (service-port-number "imaps") 993)
> doesn't really make sense. OTOH, no one will ever change the service
> names from their standard values, so the value will always be 993
> anyway.
I've no idea if there's any need to do so anymore, but I've worked in
systems (predating ssl) where we changed the service numbers in
/etc/services. I imagine that it's rare, but if anyone cares, it seems
like (defconst imaps-port 993) is cheap and easy.
*Chad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-19 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-19 9:30 Service names on machines with bad service files Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-19 9:40 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-19 10:07 ` Julien Danjou
2011-09-19 19:07 ` Chong Yidong
2011-09-19 20:25 ` chad [this message]
2011-09-19 19:32 ` Andy Wingo
2011-09-25 11:40 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-25 11:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-26 17:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 19:27 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-26 19:33 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 19:49 ` Ted Zlatanov
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