On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Schramm, Dominik wrote:
> but root normally does not get disturbed by the fact that a directory
> is not writable for root. so i thougt, why bother?
That's true.
> So the problem must be caused by the system's lookup function
> getservbyname, right?
It certainly looks like it.
> However, the following code compiles and runs correctly:
>
> #include <netdb.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> int main(void)
> {
> struct servent* srvent;
> srvent = getservbyname("smtp", "tcp");
> printf("official name: %s\nport number: %d\nprotocol: %s\n",
> srvent->s_name, srvent->s_port, srvent->s_proto);
> return 0;
> }
>
> I'm clueless.
Me too! I suppose one more thing you could try would be to run the
program with a trace turned on (strace or whatever). Check that it is
actually getting to getservbyname() if you can.
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