From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 05:30:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 05:30:13 -0400 Received: from tangens.hometree.net ([212.34.181.34]:27289 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 05:29:58 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: forge.intermeta.de!not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19 Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 09:30:18 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: <9na43a$dk$1@forge.intermeta.de> In-Reply-To: <20010906203646.A11741@gruyere.muc.suse.de> <20010906185124.42C37BC06C@spike.porcupine.org> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 999855018 26852 212.34.181.4 (7 Sep 2001 09:30:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 09:30:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2001 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de Am Schwabachgrund 22 Fon.: 09131 / 50654-0 info@intermeta.de D-91054 Buckenhof Fax.: 09131 / 50654-20