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From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>,
	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	devel@linuxdriverproject.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org,
	apw@canonical.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, ben@decadent.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/17] Tools: hv: Gather ipv[4,6] gateway information
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:36:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1343155010.29196.1.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120724095659.5c869511@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>

On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 09:56 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:53:59 +0200
> Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 24, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:01:34 -0700
> > > "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > +	memset(cmd, 0, sizeof(cmd));
> > > > +	strcat(cmd, "/sbin/ip -f inet  route | grep -w ");
> > > > +	strcat(cmd, if_name);
> > > > +	strcat(cmd, " | awk '/default/ {print $3 }'");
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Much simpler method:
> > > 
> > > ip route show match 0/0
> > 
> > This also has the benefit that ip is not called with absolute path, now
> > that distros move binaries around.
> > 
> > Olaf
> 
> It is also not hard to do the same thing with a little function
> using libmnl

Yeah seriously, netlink anyone?  You'll even get nicer error reporting
that way.

Dan

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-24 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-24 16:01 [PATCH 00/17] drivers: hv: kvp K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 15:54 ` Greg KH
2012-07-29 22:50   ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 01/17] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Use the standard format string to format GUIDs K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01   ` [PATCH 02/17] Drivers: hv: Add KVP definitions for IP address injection K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01   ` [PATCH 03/17] Drivers: hv: kvp: Cleanup error handling in KVP K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-25  1:10     ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-25 14:10       ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-25 14:47         ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-25 14:51           ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-25  7:59     ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-24 16:01   ` [PATCH 04/17] Drivers: hv: kvp: Support the new IP injection messages K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01   ` [PATCH 05/17] Tools: hv: Prepare to expand kvp_get_ip_address() functionality K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01   ` [PATCH 06/17] Tools: hv: Further refactor kvp_get_ip_address() K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01   ` [PATCH 07/17] Tools: hv: Gather address family information K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01   ` [PATCH 08/17] Tools: hv: Gather subnet information K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-25  1:14     ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-25 14:10       ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01   ` [PATCH 09/17] Tools: hv: Represent the ipv6 mask using CIDR notation K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01     ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-24 16:53       ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-24 17:08         ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-24 16:01   ` [PATCH 10/17] Tools: hv: Gather ipv[4,6] gateway information K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:29     ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-07-24 16:53       ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-24 16:56         ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-07-24 18:36           ` Dan Williams [this message]
2012-07-24 22:13             ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-24 17:17         ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01   ` [PATCH 11/17] Tools: hv: Gather DNS information K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 23:38     ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-24 16:01   ` [PATCH 12/17] Tools: hv: Gather DHCP information K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01   ` [PATCH 13/17] Tools: hv: Implement the KVP verb - KVP_OP_SET_IP_INFO K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-25  1:24     ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-25 14:48       ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-30 17:33     ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-30 19:12       ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-30 18:03     ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-30 18:32       ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-30 19:19         ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-31 10:34           ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01   ` [PATCH 14/17] Tools: hv: Rename the function kvp_get_ip_address() K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01   ` [PATCH 15/17] Tools: hv: Implement the KVP verb - KVP_OP_GET_IP_INFO K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01   ` [PATCH 16/17] Tools: hv: Get rid of some unused variables K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01   ` [PATCH 17/17] Tools: hv: Correctly type string variables K. Y. Srinivasan

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