["Graham Bloice" <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Lars Roland wrote:
>
> > A lot of people recently reported crashes of Ethereal 0.10.8 on Win98
> > and WinME at startup.
> > This issue is solved now.
>
> On Windows 95/98/Me, there's apparently a hosts file, but it's in
> c:\windows\hosts.  I've checked in a change so that if SYSTEMROOT isn't
> set, it tries reading c:\windows\hosts - and also tries
> c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and
> c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, in case SYSTEMROOT wasn't set on
> NT 4.0/2K/XP/Server2K3.
>
> Is WINDIR set on 95/98/Me?  If so, should it be checking there?  If so,
> should it use WINDIR rather than SYSTEMROOT?  In either case, should it
> try both %WINDIR%\hosts and %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, to
> handle both 95/98/Me and NT4/2K/XP/Server2K3, or should it base that on
> whether it's Windows OT (95/98/Me) or NT (NT4/2K/XP/Server2K3)?  Or is
> there some better way of getting the pathname of the hosts file?
>
> Should we just punt, rather than trying well-known paths, if
> {WINDIR,SYSTEMROOT} isn't set?

The declaration of hostspath seems to be missing from
host_name_lookup_init() in addr_resolv.c in revision 12972


Graham Bloice