=== modified file 'src/process.c'
--- src/process.c	2010-10-08 10:14:47 +0000
+++ src/process.c	2010-10-19 18:26:51 +0000
@@ -2978,10 +2978,11 @@
 host, and only clients connecting to that address will be accepted.
 
 :service SERVICE -- SERVICE is name of the service desired, or an
-integer specifying a port number to connect to.  If SERVICE is t,
-a random port number is selected for the server.  (If Emacs was
-compiled with getaddrinfo, a port number can also be specified as a
-string, e.g. "80", as well as an integer.  This is not portable.)
+integer specifying a port number to connect to.  If SERVICE is t, a
+random port number is selected for the server.  A port number can also
+be specified as a string, e.g. "80", or a symbol whose name will be
+used, as well as an integer.  This is not necessarily portable; either
+getaddrinfo or getservbyname will be used to look up the port number.
 
 :type TYPE -- TYPE is the type of connection.  The default (nil) is a
 stream type connection, `datagram' creates a datagram type connection,
@@ -3303,6 +3304,11 @@
      Otherwise, use getservbyname to lookup the service.  */
   if (!NILP (host))
     {
+      /* Take a symbol as the service and convert it to a string.  */
+      if (SYMBOLP (service))
+	{
+	  service = Fsymbol_name (service);
+	}
 
       /* SERVICE can either be a string or int.
 	 Convert to a C string for later use by getaddrinfo.  */
@@ -3347,6 +3353,12 @@
   /* We end up here if getaddrinfo is not defined, or in case no hostname
      has been specified (e.g. for a local server process).  */
 
+  /* Take a symbol as the service and convert it to a string.  */
+  if (SYMBOLP (service))
+    {
+      service = Fsymbol_name (service);
+    }
+
   if (EQ (service, Qt))
     port = 0;
   else if (INTEGERP (service))