Name
getservent
Synopsis
getservent
Retrieves the next listing from the /etc/services file or its equivalent. Returns null at the end of the file. The return value in list context is:
($name, $aliases, $port_number, $protocol_name)
In scalar context, getservent returns only the service port
name.
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