From: Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 00:57:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Mention getservbyport().  There's no patch number in the CVS log, so I assume Barry... 
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Mention getservbyport().  There's no patch number in the CVS log, so I assume Barry wrote the code.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex
index 5ed43293beb4..478f5b8b43c3 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex
@@ -1422,9 +1422,10 @@ sidestep the checking and if you were unlucky Python could segfault.
 Python 2.4's regular expression engine can match this pattern without
 problems.
 
-\item A new \function{socketpair()} function, returning a pair of
-connected sockets, was added to the \module{socket} module.
-(Contributed by Dave Cole.)
+\item Two new functions were added to the \module{socket} module.
+\function{socketpair()} returns a pair of connected sockets and
+\function{getservbyport(\var{port})} looks up the service name for a
+given port number. (Contributed by Dave Cole and Barry Warsaw.)
 
 \item The \function{sys.exitfunc()} function has been deprecated.  Code
 should be using the existing \module{atexit} module, which correctly