Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:35:19 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: simple newbie init question Message-ID: <20040122143519.GG29228@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20040121212943 DOT GF29293 AT redhat DOT com> <000101c3e067$02d7db60$353d520a AT EROUSE> <20040122100739 DOT GC1831 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <20040122101741 DOT GG1831 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040122101741.GG1831@cygbert.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:17:41AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jan 22 11:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> For the records: >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> The /etc/services symlink is just a convenience for the user. If you >> create a file in /etc instead, it won't be used by the OS. Never. >> >> Cygwin is using Winsock. Winsock uses the services file in >> ${SYSTEMROOT}/system32/drivers/etc on NT systems and in ${windir} >> on 9x systems. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Can we have a FAQ entry for that, btw.? The symlink is supposed to be there to avoid just such a FAQ entry. If it is missing that's a bug which needs to be fixed. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/