Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:10:52 +0900 (JST) | Subject | Re: inconsistency between SIOCGIFCONF and SIOCGIFNAME | From | YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <> |
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In article <40E24573.5030403@redhat.com> (at Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:45:39 -0700), Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> says:
> David S. Miller wrote: > > Ulrich, is there a major reason why you can't use RTNETLINK for > > your implementation? It behaves as you desire and gives you > > all of the link information you are after, in place of SIOCGIFCONF. > > When was the netlink interface introduced? The ioctl() code is most > probably older and therefore we would still get wrong results on old > kernels. I don't know the reason why you hesitate, but the patch seems > really harmless and, as you pointed out, more compatible with the BSD > version.
2.2.x or later have (modern) netlink support.
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