[ Rob Landley: ]
> I note that I worked around this by just disabling the two applets that
> broke, TCPSVD and UDPSVC, both of which are the strange "service daemon"
> thing Denys is so fond of.
> 
> In this case, those applets redundantly implement netcat server mode,
> for no apparent reason.  I don't know why they exist in the first place.

 Because they are Unix tools, i.e. they do one thing and do it well.
 The netcat utility, as you say, has a 'server mode'. But clients and
servers aren't the same thing. Yup, I went there: netcat is bloated.

 The real question is, why do the tcpsvd and udpsvd applets rely on
sys/sysinfo.h ? The upstream programs at http://smarden.org/ipsvd/
do not.

-- 
 Laurent
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