Base-files-mketc.sh error for non-existing C:\Windows\SysWOW64\drivers\etc

Fri Jan 22 16:02:00 GMT 2016

Greetings, Achim Gratz!
>> Sorry not sure what you mean.

> What I mean is this: are all the Windows versions that Cygwin supports
> looking for the hosts and other files in

> %windir%\system32\drivers\etc

> or are there some versions, situations or configurations where it looks for
> those files in a different place?

Been that same place since NT4 at least, for all that I recall.
Not the same for '9x family, but we're long past that point, I hope.
> That the postinstall for base-files has worked until 2.4.0 seems to indicate
> that the place is always the same, but the absence of a bug report is not
> the same as positive confirmation.

Indeed.
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Andrey Repin
Friday, January 22, 2016 10:22:02
Sorry for my terrible english...
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