Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/11/11/03:49:58
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:29:54PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Brian Dessent wrote:
>
> > [snip]
> > I don't know if it's necessary (but perhaps worth a shot?) to make a
> > link from /etc/hosts to the Windows hosts file, which is in
> > %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc for 2k/xp.
> >
> > Brian
>
> The "base-files" package already does that (for Win9x also).
> Igor
And it's not necessary. Winsock doesn't care for Cygwin's /etc directory.
Corinna
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