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Looking Up a Port Number by Name


    NAME
           getservbyname - get service entry
    
    SYNOPSIS
           #include <netdb.h>
    
           struct servent *getservbyname(const char
                  *name, const char *proto);
    
    struct servent {
       char  *s_name;
       char **s_aliases;
       int    s_port;
       char  *s_proto;
    }
    

  • s_port: port number for the service given in network byte order


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Updated 20:05 Jun 5, 2000