Re: A feature proposal for CygWin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Guido Serassio" <serassio@libero.it>
To: "Chemolli Francesco (USI)" <ChemolliF@GruppoCredit.it>
Cc: <squid-dev@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 5:06 AM
Subject: RE: A feature proposal for CygWin

> Hi,
>
> Il 19.59 09/07/2001 Chemolli Francesco (USI) ha scritto:
> > > Hi Robert,
> > >
> > > What is your opinion about to add the following feature to
> > > Squid CygWin:
> > >
> > > In tools.c, add in the parseEtcHosts function the capability to read
> > > automatically the hosts file from
> > > %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc or
> > > %windir% ?
> >
> >Sure, it's a simple autoconf thing, I think.
> >
> >--
> > /kinkie
>
> Not so simple. CygWin environment supports both NT and 9x systems, so we
> need some run-time code to make this. At the moment, the Cygwin code has
> all the needed platform identification functions. The question may be:
must
> we parse /etc/host and Windows host together ?
>

No. On cygwin they are symlinked. /etc/hosts is all thats needed.

Rob

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