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Old 08-11-2011, 04:09 PM   #23
garyhgaryh
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Originally Posted by ptsenter View Post
Yes and no: if you inside the system - running Terminal Emulator or adb - then they respond the same way to your commands, but various GUI tools won't show directory by name "etc", but do show "system/etc".

By default, my host file is not blank. It contains
127.0.0.1 localhost

/etc/host and /system/etc/host are the same.
I guess to verify that you can edit one and you'll see that they both will get updated. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm almost sure of it. But I will agree with you that behavior can be different depending on the app you use.

I think we're splitting hairs though .
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