Chapter 7, Developing applications over TCP/IP using Internet sockets
Adding and checking for services (Internet domain)

Adding and checking for services (Internet domain)

To add a new service, add its name to the /etc/services file. You can issue a call to look into /etc/services to make sure it is on the system, before using it in your program. See getservent(SLIB) and services(SFF) for more information.