Re: [PATCH resend] ws2_32: Avoid depending on system getservby(name|port) functions

[Hans Leidekker]

On Fri, 2020-09-11 at 10:51 -0600, Alex Henrie wrote:
> Currently wine doesn't create those files.  That would be staging
> > patch
> > wineboot-drivers_etc_Stubs patchset, now there might be reason to
> > upstream it.
>
> The Wine Staging patch just creates blank files. Eventually we are
> going to want to distribute premade service files and start parsing
> them in case applications add to them. However, I would prefer to
> switch to an in-memory implementation first so that we can get the
> tests right and move ahead with converting ws2_32 to PE format.

Right, but the workaround has been to add these entries to
/etc/services, which would no longer work.

See https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49656 for example.