From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Suggestion: /etc/hosts
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 07:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020909142227.GB8954@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D7C9887.8090008@hekimian.com>
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 08:48:07AM -0400, Joe Buehler wrote:
>Paul Johnston wrote:
>
>>NT has an equivalent to /etc/hosts, so I think the cygwin install should
>>create this symbolic link:
>>
>>/etc/hosts -> ${SYSTEMROOT}/system32/drivers/etc/hosts
>
>This is a great idea, making allowances for variations in the different
>versions of Windows, of course.
So, like all great ideas, all that it needs is an actual patch to make
it happen.
cgf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-09 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-09 2:45 Paul Johnston
2002-09-09 5:38 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-09-09 5:40 ` Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago
2002-09-09 6:51 ` Joe Buehler
2002-09-09 7:32 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2002-09-10 2:19 ` Paul Johnston
2002-09-11 7:43 ` Jim
2002-09-09 11:25 ` news
[not found] ` <E17oTbC-0001AV-00@quimby.gnus.org>
2002-09-10 9:52 ` Shankar Unni
2002-09-10 11:46 ` Beginnings of a patch: /etc/hosts Paul Johnston
2002-09-10 13:36 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2002-09-11 0:59 ` John Morrison
2002-09-11 2:06 ` Corinna Vinschen
2002-09-11 9:57 ` Joe Buehler
2002-09-11 11:17 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2002-09-11 11:42 ` Joe Buehler
2002-09-11 12:39 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2002-09-11 14:24 ` Paul Johnston
2002-09-11 14:53 ` Warren Young
2002-09-11 15:37 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2002-09-11 15:40 ` Paul Johnston
2002-09-11 16:15 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2002-09-11 16:35 ` Robert Collins
2002-09-11 17:10 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-09-11 17:26 ` OT " Igor Pechtchanski
2002-09-12 4:33 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-09-12 4:46 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-09-11 19:00 ` Christopher Faylor
2002-09-12 8:56 ` Joe Buehler
2002-09-11 23:25 ` Robert Collins
2002-09-12 4:11 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-09-11 17:14 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2002-09-12 1:27 ` Robert Collins
2002-09-11 17:54 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2002-09-12 4:08 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-09-12 10:08 ` Warren Young
2002-09-12 10:11 ` Warren Young
2002-09-10 13:54 ` Suggestion: /etc/hosts Warren Young
2002-09-09 8:49 Zieg, Mark
2002-09-09 10:46 ` Corinna Vinschen
2002-09-11 5:44 Tackett, Galen
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