Re: PATCH: CygWin port enhancement - 2nd revision

From: Robert Collins <robert.collins@dont-contact.us>
Date: 18 Aug 2001 11:43:27 +1000

On 17 Aug 2001 22:01:30 +0200, Guido Serassio wrote:
> Hi,
>

> My proposal is to have 3 values for hosts_files: none, default and "path".
>
> - none = no host file used
> - default = default platform host file with run-time configuration, with
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This was Henriks objection. Run-time configuration isn't visible to the
user. We can work around it very easily. (in fact I don't see that the
path in my other email would cause trouble for unix either... so maybe
one path is all thats needed?)

Rob

> the following values:
> *nix ==> /etc/hosts
> Cygwin ==> try /etc/hosts first, and on failure like native WIN32
> native WIN32 on 9x ==> %windir%\hosts
> native NT/2000/XP ==> %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
> - "path" = user specified path
>
> All must be well documented in squid.conf.
>
> As default settings, I like to use "default".
>
> Guido
>
>
>
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