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

[Alistair Leslie-Hughes]

On 11/9/20 6:21 pm, Hans Leidekker wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-09-10 at 22:32 -0600, Alex Henrie wrote:
> > These functions are incredibly slow on Windows. To avoid timeouts, I had
> > to put the tests in protocol.c rather than the crowded sock.c.
>
> Probably because Windows parses c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\services. We
> should use that file too because there are applications that append entries
> to it and expect them to be resolved.

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.

Regards
Alistair