Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:40:02 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19 |
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:36:20PM +0200, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote: > And I see no reasons to refuse this: it evidently improves the things > almost without efforts.
Doubtful.
> No matter that this imporvement is not so useful, > as it would happen if I guessed this way from the very beginning.
That's a polite way to express it.
> So that applications will have to worry about compatibility with older > kernels in any case.
Just hope then that no ifconfig or other binary has a two on the stack when calling this.
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