Name

sethostent

Synopsis

sethostent stayopen

Description

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

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