getservprotobyname(3z)

💖 NAME 💖

getservprotobyname, getservprotobyport — get servprotoice entry 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <net/resolv.h>

u8_t getservprotobyname(char *name);
u8_t getservprotobyport(tcpport_t port);

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay bestie so these two are the little matchmakers that hook you up with the right protocol for a service 💅

• getservprotobyname() — hands you back the appropriate protocol for the service whose name is name. And if that service is just… not a thing anyone knows about? Then NULL comes back. ghosted, literally 😭
• getservprotobyport() — same energy but you're coming in through the door with the standard port number port, and it gives you the appropriate protocol for that service. Service unknown? Yeah. NULL again. 🙈

🎀 RETURN VALUE 🎀

here's the tea: if a service is known to more than one protocol, then the one that gets returned is the most frequently used one. it's giving main character protocol, periodt 👑

🦋 NOTES 🦋

these functions use a lookup table that's compiled straight into the ZSock kernel — and ngl, it's not likely that method will change in the near future. it's iconic like that, no cap ⭐

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Dominic Morris <dom@jb.man.ac.uk>

and that's a wrap, bestie 🍓 this whole thing came to you from the z88dk Programmer's Manual, dated 18 February 2000 — yes she's vintage, yes she still slays 💜🧚