/etc/hosts lines starting with white space are ignored
David Scheidt
dmschei at attglobal.net
Tue Feb 1 15:29:18 PST 2005
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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