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Date:      Tue, 1 Feb 2005 17:21:19 -0800
From:      Romain Kang <romain@kzsu.stanford.edu>
To:        David Scheidt <dmschei@attglobal.net>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /etc/hosts lines starting with white space are ignored
Message-ID:  <20050202012119.GA48725@kzsu.stanford.edu>
In-Reply-To: <420010BC.9080400@attglobal.net>
References:  <420010BC.9080400@attglobal.net>

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On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:29:00PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote:
> 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.

The format of /etc/hosts has been thus for more than 20 years over
multiple platforms, so it's what everyone else expects.  Sorry.

Romain



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