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Re: [bug-inetutils] netstat
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: [bug-inetutils] netstat |
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Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:28:59 +0100 |
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Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden> writes:
> onsdag den 30 november 2011 klockan 10:44 skrev Simon Josefsson detta:
>> 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?
>
> The library call getservbyname(3) does so, and we are using it!
POSIX allows that the function to be implemented without /etc/services.
Is there anywhere in InetUtils we use getservbyname without checking
that it returns NULL? That would be a bug worth fixing.
Is there any other reason we require a /etc/services file?
/Simon
- [bug-inetutils] netstat, Simon Josefsson, 2011/11/29
- Re: [bug-inetutils] netstat, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2011/11/29
- Re: [bug-inetutils] netstat, Mats Erik Andersson, 2011/11/29
- Re: [bug-inetutils] netstat, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2011/11/29
- Re: [bug-inetutils] netstat, Simon Josefsson, 2011/11/30
- Re: [bug-inetutils] netstat, Mats Erik Andersson, 2011/11/30
- Re: [bug-inetutils] netstat,
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- Re: [bug-inetutils] netstat, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2011/11/30
- Re: [bug-inetutils] netstat, Simon Josefsson, 2011/11/30
- Re: [bug-inetutils] netstat, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2011/11/30
- Re: [bug-inetutils] netstat, Simon Josefsson, 2011/11/30
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- Re: [bug-inetutils] netstat, Simon Josefsson, 2011/11/30