Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 18:29:00 -0500 From: David Scheidt <dmschei@attglobal.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: /etc/hosts lines starting with white space are ignored Message-ID: <420010BC.9080400@attglobal.net>
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If a line in /etc/hosts starts with a space or tab, it's not read. I'm not sure that's really a desirable behavior. I'm quite sure it's not the vehavior I expected. It looks like it's the usage of strpbrk() in the gethostent() function of src/lib/libc/net/gethostbyht.c. It wouldn't be hard to fix it to find hostnames on lines starting with " \t". Should I submit a patch?
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