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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-09-23 10:46:24 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-09-23 10:46:24 +0200 |
| commit | a2610398b8f719d8b29fe419f72e5730402f1ea8 (patch) | |
| tree | c2f57e4d315c2293cec4ab80d56014f019b55357 /man5/services.5 | |
| parent | 837f7a82d3cb39e732c71d1803c1759e57d7b0fb (diff) | |
Remove some bugs, that no longer seen to be true in glibc 2.8.
Diffstat (limited to 'man5/services.5')
| -rw-r--r-- | man5/services.5 | 30 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/man5/services.5 b/man5/services.5 index a05bdc25..f2434332 100644 --- a/man5/services.5 +++ b/man5/services.5 @@ -187,19 +187,23 @@ The Internet network services list .I <netdb.h> Definition of .B _PATH_SERVICES -.SH BUGS -There is a maximum of 35 aliases, due to the way the -.BR getservent (3) -code is written. - -Lines longer than -.B BUFSIZ -(currently 1024) characters will be ignored by -.BR getservent (3), -.BR getservbyname (3), -and -.BR getservbyport (3). -However, this will also cause the next line to be mis-parsed. +.\" .SH BUGS +.\" It's not clear when/if the following was ever true; +.\" it isn't true for glibc 2.8: +.\" There is a maximum of 35 aliases, due to the way the +.\" .BR getservent (3) +.\" code is written. +.\" +.\" It's not clear when/if the following was ever true; +.\" it isn't true for glibc 2.8: +.\" Lines longer than +.\" .B BUFSIZ +.\" (currently 1024) characters will be ignored by +.\" .BR getservent (3), +.\" .BR getservbyname (3), +.\" and +.\" .BR getservbyport (3). +.\" However, this will also cause the next line to be mis-parsed. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR listen (2), .BR endservent (3), |