[Emacs-diffs] master 75b0a03 2/2: Add NEWS entry for "number string" change

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

branch: master
commit 75b0a03c09a05e30394b0a51fdeeb5a141155556
Author: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
Commit: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>

    Add NEWS entry for "number string" change
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 etc/NEWS |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index ae503f6..ec68cce 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ to deal with asynchronous sockets is to avoid interacting 
with them
 until they have changed status to "run".  This is most easily done
 from a process sentinel.
 
+** `make-network-stream' has always allowed :service to be specified
+as a "number string" (i.e., :service "993") when using gethostbyname,
+but has required using a real number (i.e., :service 993) on systems
+without gethostbyname.  This difference has now been eliminated, and
+you can use "number strings" on all systems.
+
 ** It is possible to disable attempted recovery on fatal signals
 
 Two new variables allow to disable attempts to recover from stack