lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1998]   [Oct]   [28]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
    /
    SubjectRe: Patch to fix /proc/net files.
    From
    Date
    Matthias Welwarsky <matze@stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de> writes:

    |> Alan Cox wrote:
    |> >
    |> > > This patch should convert /proc/net/{raw,tcp,udp} so that the various
    |> > > IP addresses therein are shown in dotted quad format rather than in
    |> > > little-endian hex integers.
    |> >
    |> > Changing the format is an even worse idea
    |> >
    |>
    |> net-tools need the /proc/net stuff quite a lot, and from this point of
    |> view having the data in network byte order would be a good thing, I
    |> think. Only minor changes on application level, and it would ease
    |> maintaining net-tools across the multiple platforms.

    Using htonl in net-tools isn't a big deal either, and works across all
    platforms.

    --
    Andreas Schwab "And now for something
    schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de completely different"
    schwab@gnu.org

    -
    To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
    the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
    Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

    \
     
     \ /
      Last update: 2005-03-22 13:45    [W:3.737 / U:0.284 seconds]
    ©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site