Re: Service names on machines with bad service files

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

> They are.  You're thinking of the "famous" ones like imaps, but there
> are many unstandardized "lesser celebrities" that are only relevant in
> the W32 domain for instance.

Yeah, I don't care about those.  :-)

> We could hard-code just the ones we need in a global table, if you want
> to limit the scope to that.  I was proposing something more adaptable
> that would serve as a platform services reference.  Perhaps that's
> overengineering it but I was misled by the thread subject :)

I think that's overengineering.  :-)  But for Emacs 24.2 I want to
implement the `get-service-number' function (or whatever it'll be
called) as previously discussed.

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