[email protected] (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes: > Is there any other reason we require a /etc/services file? > > We don't require it, but GNU does, and NixOS has a misconfigured GNU > system installation.
Where does GNU require a /etc/services file? Still, InetUtils should work on non-GNU platforms (even if they are less important) and even when getservbyname fails, so it still sounds like a bug if InetUtils doesn't work without a /etc/services file. /Simon
