I see this in os/access.c from the current git tree:
...
#if defined WIN32 && defined __MINGW32__
#define ETC_HOST_PREFIX "X"
#else
#define ETC_HOST_PREFIX "/etc/X"
#endif
#define ETC_HOST_SUFFIX ".hosts"
fnamelen = strlen(ETC_HOST_PREFIX) + strlen(ETC_HOST_SUFFIX) +
strlen(display) + 1;
if (fnamelen > sizeof(fname))
FatalError("Display name `%s' is too long\n", display);
snprintf(fname, sizeof(fname), ETC_HOST_PREFIX "%s" ETC_HOST_SUFFIX,
display);
if ((fd = fopen (fname, "r")) != 0)
...
so it appears to be hard code.
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Jeremy Huddleston <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Oct 7, 2010, at 11:27, Pat Kane wrote:
>
>> Try:
>> man Xserver | grep /etc/X
>> on my Ubuntu system it gives:
>>
>> /etc/Xn.hosts Initial access control list for display
>> number n
>
> Ok, so then is that another instance that needs to be changed to
> __sysconfdir__ as well, or is it hard coded to /etc somewhere?
>
>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Jeremy Huddleston <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> This was reported to me and I thought I should pass it along...
>>>
>>> xhost(1) has:
>>>
>>> FILES
>>> /etc/X*.hosts
>>>
>>> but looking through xhost.c, I'm not sure what it's referring to...
>>>
>>> so do we
>>>
>>> 1) Remove it?
>>>
>>> 2) Change the /etc/ to something else like __sysconfdir__ and explain what
>>> these files are for?
>>>
>>>
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