Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:36:13 -0800 From: Paul Armstrong <freebsdhackers@otoh.org> To: Romain Kang <romain@kzsu.stanford.edu>, David Scheidt <dmschei@attglobal.net>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/hosts lines starting with white space are ignored Message-ID: <20050203003613.GQ32260@suricate.otoh.org> In-Reply-To: <20050202012119.GA48725@kzsu.stanford.edu> References: <420010BC.9080400@attglobal.net> <20050202012119.GA48725@kzsu.stanford.edu>
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On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 05:21:19PM -0800, Romain Kang 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. I'm not so sure it is actually. Both Solaris and Linux (sorry, but these are the only 2 other platforms I've got access to), accept lines beginning with space or tab (or both). Paul
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