>PS: May be the getprotobyname doesn't look directly in /etc/protocols, but
>first in /etc/nsswitch.conf ?
If you are using libc 6 then yes, calls like getprotobyname use nsswitch.conf
to determine where to look. I don't think this is the case with libc 4,
though I could be wrong about that.
You can probably find out what's going on by using strace on the failing
program.
>programs use an another function called getservbyname ( it is more or less the
>same than getprotobyname, except looking in /etc/services). I tried to find
>where these functions are defined, but they are both defined as "extern", and
>there is no more definition. Does anybody know what does that mean ? It is
>defined in a module that should be inserted in the kernel ?
They are provided by the shared C library. See the glibc manual.
p.
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