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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: SIOCGIFCOUNT
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:48:52 +0200
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On Saturday 21 April 2007 00:41:33 David Miller wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:04:51 +0200
> 
> > 0x8938 is SIOCGIFCOUNT. As far as I can see it is only defined in
> > sockios.h, but not implemented?
> >
> > Should it be removed from the include file or implemented?
> 
> Unless we can be %100 certain not one build will break by removing it,
> we should keep it around.

Ok, but should it not be implemented for the non compat case too?
I assume java has some reason to call it.

-Andi