Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/08/21/12:42:45
David Starks-Browning wrote:
>
> On Saturday 18 Aug 01, Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 01:47:48PM -0500, ASH, JAMES (SBCSI) wrote:
> > > Through many hours of experimentation, it seems that cygwin doesn't require,
> > > or use, the /etc/services file. (Is this statement correct?)
> >
> > Correct. It uses the services file of the OS:
> >
> > 9x/ME: ${WINDIR}\\SERVICES
> > NT/W2K: ${SYSTEMROOT}\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\services
>
> I've been meaning to add this to the FAQ, BTW. Will try to get to it soon.
Perhaps it would also be good if Cygwin set up an /etc/services file
with only comments in it, telling the user where to find the services
file that is actually used. It might also be good to say _why_ Cygwin
doesn't use /etc/services. ("Because it's simpler to use Winsock's
getservbyname() than to roll our own, that's why.")
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