Subject: Re: Cygwin's CVS - can it be a network server?
From: Warren Young <[email-masked]>
To: Cygwin-L <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:42:17 -0600

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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