From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Service names on machines with bad service files
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:07:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obyg9wr3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3vcsog9a7.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:40:16 +0200")
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> 2) Somehow determine that the OS doesn't know what "imaps" is, and use
>> "993" as a fallback. I have no idea whether that's easy to do.
>
> This would be very easy to do. It would mean making a new C-level
> function that basically just calls getservbyname and returns the port
> number. So nnimap would the call `open-network-stream' with
> (or (service-port-number "imaps") 993).
>
> That sounds quite nice, doesn't it?
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-19 19:07 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 [this message]
2011-09-19 20:25 ` chad
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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