Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3B828F69.61796D0E@etr-usa.com> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:42:17 -0600 From: Warren Young Organization: -ENOENT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin-L Subject: Re: Cygwin's CVS - can it be a network server? References: <8BFEC206D292D311921500508B0BCB8D08791E06@msgstl01.sbc.com> <20010818220509.C536@cygbert.vinschen.de> <7434-Tue21Aug2001101903+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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.") -- = Warren -- Video articles: http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/video/ = = ICBM Address: 36.8274040 N, 108.0204086 W, alt. 1714m -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/