Re: host to use $HOSTALIASES ?

[joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de (Martin Schulze)]

Hi Joey!

> I noticed in environ(5) and gethostbyname(5) that if the variable
> HOSTALIASES is set, the file it points to is used for host lookups instead
> of /etc/hosts. But I can't get it to work. Does this actually work in linux?
> I've always wanted a per-user $HOME/.hosts file.

I've learned that this depends on the version of your libc.  But
please don't ask me with which one it works, I have given up...

Regards

	Joey

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