On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 12:02 +0100, Phil Knirsch wrote: > Now, i know and understand how and why glibc does the getservbyname() > call as it does (namely, every time opening, reading and parsing the > file). It neither caches calls nor does any other fancy stuff (how could > it? The order in the file is arbitrary, so the only possibility is to do > a linear read and parse of the file). > Comments and suggestions are of course always welcome. What about writing (or finding) a NS module that does caching? It can pull from a sorted bdb using a binary search, unless /etc/services is newer at which point it rebuilds the database. /etc/services almost *never* changes, so the rebuild speed shouldn't matter too much. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://fedora.ivazquez.net/ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72
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