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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