Re: PATCH: win32 hosts file location

Hi,

Il 10.11 19/08/2001 Guido Serassio ha scritto:
>Hi,
>
>Il 05.34 19/08/2001 Henrik Nordstrom ha scritto:
>>Robert Collins wrote:
>>
>> > Hmm, thats an approach, but I though you wished to avoid runtime magic?
>>
>>Not really. But the original code was a tiny bit too magic, and messed
>>around with
>>the loaded configuration.
>>
>>Currently I see three alternatives:
>>
>>a) Magic /etc/
>>
>> hosts_file /etc/hosts
>>
>>b) List of paths with variables
>>
>>c) Introduction of a special "environment-variable" for the "system
>>network database
>>directory", and generate a sligthly different default using this
>>"variable". Allowing
>>only one win32 setting to be used, and code to automatically expand this
>>to the
>>correct location.
>>
>> hosts_file %SYSDB%\hosts
>
>I like the c):
>
>It's simple to write and self-explaining too.
>Default Squid %SYSDB% is /etc, is competence of platform porter to add the
>code to change this value.
>
>For example, on WIN32, i can do this transparently on the
>WIN32_Subsystem_Init() function, leaving al Squid code unchanged.
>
>Guido

No more comments about this thread, so this mean that I can start with coding ?

Guido

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Received on Mon Aug 20 2001 - 11:15:21 MDT