[6339] in Athena Bugs
vax,mips getservbyport()
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Krikorian)
Mon Nov 5 07:03:56 1990
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 90 07:03:46 -0500
From: David Krikorian <dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: dkk@mit.edu
(All references are to Athena Release 7.1H)
On the RT, getservbyport() works.
On the VAX it just returns null.
(I believe the PMAX also returns null.)
I don't have any examples of previous uses of getservbyport(), so I
can't say when it was last functional.
To repeat, use Saber to lookup "finger" (79/tcp) with getservbyport().