From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inconsistency between SIOCGIFCONF and SIOCGIFNAME
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:45:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40E24573.5030403@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040629141915.0268b741.davem@redhat.com>
David S. Miller wrote:
> Ulrich, is there a major reason why you can't use RTNETLINK for
> your implementation? It behaves as you desire and gives you
> all of the link information you are after, in place of SIOCGIFCONF.
When was the netlink interface introduced? The ioctl() code is most
probably older and therefore we would still get wrong results on old
kernels. I don't know the reason why you hesitate, but the patch seems
really harmless and, as you pointed out, more compatible with the BSD
version.
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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-30 4:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-29 4:06 inconsistency between SIOCGIFCONF and SIOCGIFNAME Ulrich Drepper
2004-06-29 8:26 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-29 16:22 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-06-29 19:09 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-06-29 21:19 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-30 4:45 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2004-06-30 5:10 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-06-30 5:13 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-30 7:51 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-06-30 19:59 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-29 16:32 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-06-29 19:11 ` Ulrich Drepper
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