Hosts file

[Igor Pechtchanski]

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>
	Igor
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