Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19

["Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <mailgate@hometree.net>]

wietse@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) writes:

>It's not portable as you may believe.

>    [root@redhat52 /root]# man rtnetlink
>    No manual entry for rtnetlink

% cd /home/distribution/RedHat-5.2/i386/
% ls -la kernel*
-r--r--r--    1 root     root      2216232 Oct 14  1998 kernel-2.0.36-0.7.i386.rpm
-r--r--r--    1 root     root       536848 Oct 14  1998 kernel-headers-2.0.36-0.7.i386.rpm
-r--r--r--    1 root     root        94694 Oct 14  1998 kernel-ibcs-2.0.36-0.7.i386.rpm
-r--r--r--    1 root     root       320370 Oct 14  1998 kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.0.36-0.7.i386.rpm
-r--r--r--    1 root     root      9625252 Oct 14  1998 kernel-source-2.0.36-0.7.i386.rpm

You don't _WANT_ to listen, do you? Andi told you many times, that
this is an Linux 2.1+ API. RH 5.2 is a 2.0 distribution. Of course,
there is no man page in it for this. It's almost three years
old. There are from this particular vendor, _FIVE_ newer distributions. 
What do you want to tell us? That you're living in the past?

Please stop constructing cases. Linux did move on slightly in the last
three years. Maybe some other OSes didn't.

	Regards
		Henning
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