> Network services are defined by the presence, in a directory watched by listen, of executable files whose name is of the form <protocol><port>.
That seems a bit silly to me as it means something like rot1376 is tricky to parse correctly. I'd think it would make sense for the protocol to need to be separated from the port by a non-numeric character, like a hyphen. Like that it would be trivial to parse: just grab all the numeric characters from the end until we find the non-numeric character.
That seems a bit silly to me as it means something like rot1376 is tricky to parse correctly. I'd think it would make sense for the protocol to need to be separated from the port by a non-numeric character, like a hyphen. Like that it would be trivial to parse: just grab all the numeric characters from the end until we find the non-numeric character.