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Re: Service names on machines with bad service files
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: Service names on machines with bad service files |
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Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:40:16 +0200 |
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> 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?
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