Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Patch to fix /proc/net files. | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 28 Oct 1998 14:14:08 +0100 |
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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
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