Re: [bug-inetutils] netstat

[Simon Josefsson]

address@hidden (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?

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.

/Simon