onsdag den 30 november 2011 klockan 10:44 skrev Simon Josefsson detta: > [email protected] (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes: > > > NixOS has complained with us for demanding use of netstat, which > > their build daemon does not provide. On the other hand, NixOS does > > not even provide "/etc/services", which makes any testing of > > network code utterly pointless, breaking the needed library calls. > > > > True that, that is a serious bug in NisOS which makes it totally > > unusable for our purposes. > > Where does InetUtils require a /etc/services?
The library call getservbyname(3) does so, and we are using it! > POSIX doesn't require a /etc/services file as far as I recall. > > I can't find any references to /etc/services except for in the InetUtils > manual. > > If InetUtils really require a /etc/services file I think we should > document that. I'd prefer if there were no such requirement though. Regards, Mats
