getent services enumeration glitch

[Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]]

Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, August 18, 2015 7:24 AM
>On Aug 18 09:40, Mark Geisert wrote:
>Congratulations! You found a 13 years old bug in Cygwin's getservent
>implementation, which returned the port number in host byte order
>instead of in network byte order for all this time. Makes me wonder how
>often getservent is used in the wild...

Not that I know what getent is, let alone having ever used it, shouldn't
finding a bug that old merit a gold star?

- Barry
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