From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Service names on machines with bad service files Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 06:38:01 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <8762kg97ja.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316950722 12964 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2011 11:38:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:38:42 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 25 13:38:32 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R7n2W-0005h1-0o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:38:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38243 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R7n2V-0005rn-FM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:38:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60510) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R7n2Q-0005rX-0G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:38:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R7n2L-0003Qd-Je for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:38:25 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36943) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R7n2L-0003QO-9F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:38:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R7n2K-0005d7-Fu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:38:20 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.133 ([38.98.147.133]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:38:20 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.133 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:38:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.133 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sPjH67DYEOk9vELPaK1sEMK8ekg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144267 Archived-At: On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:30:22 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: LMI> A Windows user has a problem with opening a connection using port LMI> "imaps", which doesn't exist in that user's service file (or wherever LMI> Windows stashes these things). LMI> So I'm wondering whether there's any nice way to determine that that's LMI> the situation and work around it. ... LMI> 2) Somehow determine that the OS doesn't know what "imaps" is, and use LMI> "993" as a fallback. I have no idea whether that's easy to do. I think this is the best solution: map service names to ports in an OS-specific way. For W32, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832017 could be used. It gives several standard port assignments in tables. That whole article could be transformed into a "services" file at compile time or provided dynamically. Ted