protocols(4)protocols(4)NAMEprotocols - protocol name database
DESCRIPTION
This file associates protocol numbers with official protocol names and
aliases. This allows the user to refer to a protocol by a symbolic
name instead of a number. For each protocol, a single line should be
present with the following information:
<official protocol name> <official protocol number> <aliases>
These mappings are defined in RFC 1700
Aliases are other names under which the protocol is also known. For
example:
In this example, the library call can be invoked as:
instead of
Both produce the same results.
A line cannot start with a space. Items are separated by any number of
blanks and/or tab characters. A character indicates the beginning of a
comment. Characters from the to the end of the line are not inter‐
preted by routines which search the file.
Protocol names can contain any printable character other than a white
space, new-line, or comment character. Trailing blanks or tabs are
allowed at the end of a line.
EXAMPLESAUTHOR
was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.
FILESSEE ALSOgetprotoent(3N).
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