Re: notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 6 Sep 2001 21:18:00 +0100 (BST)


> > SIOCGIFCONF is going to give the right data. People doing clever things
> > will have to set up config files. simple easy - hard possible.
>
> Cool. I will not waste further time on this until someone takes
> SIOCGIFCONF away.

I think that is a reasonable solution. Very few people have configurations
that SIOCGIFCONF cannot properly report. If there are configurations that
are totally sane and SIOCGIFCONF can report but misreports them I consider
it a bug.

Alan
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