using --hosts-files=./path gives invalid argument error

[juantascon]

• how to reproduce:

echo "10.10.10.10 somehost" >> path
dnsproxy --hosts-files=./path

• error msg:

2024/09/10 13:30:09.174559 INFO dnsproxy starting version=0.73.1 revision="" branch="" commit_time=""
2024/09/10 13:30:09.174606 ERROR running dnsproxy err="configuring proxy: creating default handler: open ./path: invalid argument"

[s1sw]

DNSProxy prepends a slash to the path, so you need the full path without a leading slash. For example, if you're in /home/whoever, you would need --hosts-files=home/whoever/path.

[alxistr]

DNSProxy prepends a slash to the path

But why? I've encountered this too and it's confusing.

For example, if you're in /home/whoever, you would need --hosts-files=home/whoever/path.

In other words the path is always considered as absolute (a current directory doesn't matter) and a leading slash has to be omitted?