Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:48:42 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: more about sockets? Message-ID: <20031111084842.GM18706@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5.0.2.1.0.20031111091319.00a27790@pop3.unsw.edu.au> <3FB0108A.43DB6E7@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/