policy: stop touching /etc/hosts
Handling of /etc/hosts is highly site- and admin- specific in many more complex cases, and it's exceedingly hard and error- prone for NetworkManager to handle all those cases. So remove this functionality entirely. That's not a big loss, as it turns out there's a much more elegant solution. The only requirement is that the machine's hostname map back to an IP address owned by the machine. That requirement can be satisifed by nss-myhostname or even possibly the distro's installer. If the user does not want nss-myhostname then it can be uninstalled. Distros should use a "recommends" feature in their packaging system so that the NetworkManager package does *not* have a hard requirement on nss-myhostname. Thus everyone is happy; things Just Work when nss-myhostname is installed, but more advanced users can uninstall it and customize /etc/hosts as they wish. Another alternative is a dispatcher script that listents for the 'hostname' event, and updates /etc/hosts according to the administrator's preference.
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#include "nm-netlink-monitor.h"
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#include "nm-vpn-manager.h"
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#include "nm-logging.h"
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#include "nm-policy-hosts.h"
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#if !defined(NM_DIST_VERSION)
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# define NM_DIST_VERSION VERSION
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goto done;
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}
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/* Clean leftover "# Added by NetworkManager" entries from /etc/hosts */
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nm_policy_hosts_clean_etc_hosts ();
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nm_manager_start (manager);
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/* Bring up the loopback interface. */
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