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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:59:43 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: more about sockets? In-Reply-To: <20031111084842.GM18706@cygbert.vinschen.de> Message-ID: References: <5.0.2.1.0.20031111091319.00a27790@pop3.unsw.edu.au> <3FB0108A.43DB6E7@dessent.net> <20031111084842.GM18706@cygbert.vinschen.de> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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 Depends on how you look at it. Winsock will ignore /etc/hosts on Cygwin. So, for Brian's recipe (of adding the hostname to /etc/hosts) to work, the link *is* necessary. :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/