On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 05:21:19PM -0800, Romain Kang wrote: > > If a line in /etc/hosts starts with a space or tab, it's not read. I'm > > not sure that's really a desirable behavior. I'm quite sure it's not > > the vehavior I expected. > > The format of /etc/hosts has been thus for more than 20 years over > multiple platforms, so it's what everyone else expects. Sorry.
I'm not so sure it is actually. Both Solaris and Linux (sorry, but these are the only 2 other platforms I've got access to), accept lines beginning with space or tab (or both). Paul _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
