SERVICES(5) MachTen Programmer’s Manual SERVICES(5)

NAME
services - service name data base

DESCRIPTION
The services file contains information regarding the known services
available in the DARPA Internet. For each service a single line should
be present with the following information:

official service name
port number
protocol name
aliases

Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters. The
port number and protocol name are considered a single item; a ‘‘/’’ is
used to separate the port and protocol (e.g. ‘‘512/tcp’’). A ‘‘#’’ indi-
cates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of
the line are not interpreted by the routines which search the file.

Service names may contain any printable character other than a field de-
limiter, newline, or comment character.

FILES
/etc/services The services file resides in /etc.

SEE ALSO
getservent(3)

BUGS
A name server should be used instead of a static file.

HISTORY
The services file format appeared in 4.2BSD.

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