Re: Service names on machines with bad service files

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:33:34 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> 
wrote: 

LMI> 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.

LMI> 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 :)

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

Sounds good to me.  Thanks in advance for doing this.

Ted