Re: wininet: let automated testers force all DNS lookups to return localhost

[Hans Leidekker]

On Friday 31 October 2008 15:52:43 James Mckenzie wrote:
> > What happened to your /etc/hosts proposal? It has the
> > advantage that we don't need changes to Wine source code.
>
> This would not work on Macs as /etc/hosts is locked to admins only and would be a problem to implement.

That's true for Unix in general, but I think we require admin rights
already because the services need to bind ports below 1024 for example.

-Hans