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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] SIOCGIFCOUNT implementation
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:30:56 +0200
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> Please also tell me what legacy application could actually
> use this thing when BSD itself doesn't even implement it?

Some version of java seems to. I see a lot of:

ioctl32(java:30851): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(00008938){00} arg(bfbb87c4) on socket:[334628709]

But just rejecting it is probably ok.

-Andi