Re: Service names on machines with bad service files

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> 2) Somehow determine that the OS doesn't know what "imaps" is, and use
> "993" as a fallback.  I have no idea whether that's easy to do.

This would be very easy to do.  It would mean making a new C-level
function that basically just calls getservbyname and returns the port
number.  So nnimap would the call `open-network-stream' with
(or (service-port-number "imaps") 993).

That sounds quite nice, doesn't it?

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