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Re: Hosts file
* Igor Pechtchanski (03-03-25 18:33 +0100)
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>> * Martin Gainty (03-03-25 18:07 +0100)
>>> Where does cygwin look for hosts file ?
>>
>> "Cygwin" doesn't care about "hosts". The applications are looking for
>> it in /etc and it is symlinked to the Windows default file in
>> %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\.
>> Thorsten
>
> <pedantic>The applications (through wsock32.dll) look for it in the
> standard Windows place, which is %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\ on
> WinNT/2k/XP and %WINDIR%\ on Win9x. The symlink is for the
> users.</pedantic>
Well, I thought some /applications/ were explictly looking and
complaining for the existence of the "most important" files on a Unix
host and this was the reason for the hosts, networks, services and
protocols links.
Thorsten
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