txt: ## dist_zef-lizmat-Net-servent.md
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  # NAME
  
  Raku port of Perl's Net::servent module
  
  # SYNOPSIS
  
  ```
  use Net::servent;
  $s = getservbyname('ftp') || die "no service";
  printf "port for %s is %s, aliases are %s\n",
     $s.name, $s.port, "@_aliases[]";
   
  use Net::servent qw(:FIELDS);
  getservbyname('ftp') || die "no service";
  print "port for $s_name is $s_port, aliases are @s_aliases[]\n";
  
  ```
  
  # DESCRIPTION
  
  This module tries to mimic the behaviour of Perl's `Net::servent` module as closely as possible in the Raku Programming Language.
  
  This module's exports `getservbyname`, `getservbyportd`, and `getservent` functions that return `Net::servent` objects. This object has methods that return the similarly named structure field name from the C's servent structure from servdb.h, stripped of their leading "s\_" parts, namely name, aliases, port and proto.
  
  You may also import all the structure fields directly into your namespace as regular variables using the :FIELDS import tag. Access these fields as variables named with a preceding s\_ in front their method names. Thus, $serv\_obj.name corresponds to $s\_name if you import the fields.
  
  The `getserv` function is a simple front-end that forwards a numeric argument to `getservbyport` and the rest to `getservbyname`.
  
  # PORTING CAVEATS
  
  This module depends on the availability of POSIX semantics. This is generally not available on Windows, so this module will probably not work on Windows.
  
  # AUTHOR
  
  Elizabeth Mattijsen [liz@raku.rocks](mailto:liz@raku.rocks)
  
  Source can be located at: <https://github.com/lizmat/serv-servent> . Comments and Pull Requests are welcome.
  
  # COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
  
  Copyright 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Elizabeth Mattijsen
  
  Re-imagined from Perl as part of the CPAN Butterfly Plan.
  
  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.
  