simple newbie init question

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 22 09:35, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:17:41AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Jan 22 11:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> For the records:
> >> 
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> The /etc/services symlink is just a convenience for the user.  If you
> >> create a file in /etc instead, it won't be used by the OS.  Never.
> >> 
> >> Cygwin is using Winsock.  Winsock uses the services file in
> >> ${SYSTEMROOT}/system32/drivers/etc on NT systems and in ${windir}
> >> on 9x systems.
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >Can we have a FAQ entry for that, btw.?
> 
> The symlink is supposed to be there to avoid just such a FAQ entry.  If
> it is missing that's a bug which needs to be fixed.

Sure, but *if* the symlink is missing for some reason and somebody
thinks that a missing /etc/services is the reason that Cygwin crashes,
then the FAQ entry helps to avoid any further mail on this issue.

Well, on second thought...

Corinna

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