From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19166 invoked by alias); 9 Sep 2002 18:11:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 19153 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2002 18:11:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO c000.lhr.cp.net) (209.228.22.152) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Sep 2002 18:11:46 -0000 Received: (cpmta 10339 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2002 18:11:34 +0000 Received: from 62.180.7.206 (HELO daisy) by smtp.altavista.de (209.228.22.152) with SMTP; 9 Sep 2002 18:11:34 +0000 X-Sent: 9 Sep 2002 18:11:34 GMT X-Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: Suggestion: /etc/hosts From: news@garydjones.mailshell.com References: <3D7C6D5F.A9D4CCC5@pajhome.org.uk> User-Agent: Xnews/4.11.09 X-No-Archive: yes To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Gate: Hamster/1.3.23.185 NewsToMail-Gate Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 11:25:00 -0000 X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00383.txt.bz2 Message-ID: <20020909112500.2TdTKhJCfxIwOGooTS3gbE11QzEQ8gPRIbZ7S5gVk5E@z> On 09 Sep 2002, Paul Johnston wrote: > I think the cygwin > install should create this symbolic link: > > /etc/hosts -> ${SYSTEMROOT}/system32/drivers/etc/hosts I like the idea in principle. Depending on your setup though, editing a file in your favourite Cygwin based editor might give you an odd looking file in the end (some lines with DOS-endings and some with *n*x-endings). I doubt Cygwin would have a problem with that, but I don't really want to test what Windows would do. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/