Name

sethostent

Synopsis

sethostent stayopen
                  

Opens the hosts file (usually /etc/hosts on Unix systems) and resets the “current” selection to the top of the file. stayopen, if nonzero, keeps the file open across calls to other functions. Not implemented on Win32 systems.

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