Re: [bug-inetutils] netstat

[Simon Josefsson]

address@hidden (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