On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> * 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
I am not aware of any. AFAIK (and I should, I participated in the
creation of the package that makes them) the links are purely for user
convenience (and uniformity).
Igor
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