winsock: remove annoying message
Rein Klazes
rklazes at xs4all.nl
Sat Nov 29 01:28:04 CST 2003
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 11:43:06 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
> Ahh, I think I see your point: the Wine+Linux variant
> uses /etc/services, while Windows uses a file of the
> same format, but in a different location
> (system\services for Win9x, typically
> system32\drivers\etc\services for WinNT+). Is that
> right?
Yes, although I do not remember for sure whether this services file
under windows is actually used by these winsock calls.
> In that case, I'm not sure what the correct behavior
> should be. On one hand, it doesn't match Windows'
> behavior 100% when using a real Windows install. On
> the other hand, it'll match native (Linux) programs'
> behavior on the same machine.
Purpose of wine is to run win applications that users want to run under
Linux. We occasionally go beyond the way from 100% correctness to help
make that happen.
>
> Because a user (non-developer) can't take any action
> to correct this, I think the output is unnecessary.
> Point taken that at least a TRACE may be useful,
> though, since it's of use to developers.
I don't follow here. There are plenty of users around that would be able
to read, understand and act on this message.
Rein.
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Rein Klazes
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