Re: Service names on machines with bad service files

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:32:31 -0400 Andy Wingo <address@hidden> wrote: 

AW> On Mon 19 Sep 2011 05:30, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
>> (open-network-stream "hello" nil "gmail.com" "hello")
>> =>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "gmail.com/hello Servname not supported 
>> for ai_socktype")

AW> Perhaps gnulib could help here, supplying missing service definitions on
AW> Windows systems.

Since XEmacs doesn't use gnulib and Gnus supports XEmacs, that wouldn't
help the Gnus developers because they still have to support that edge
case.  It would be nice, though :) See my earlier e-mail for the W32
service-to-port mapping straight from the horse's mouth.

Ted