Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19 | Date | Thu, 6 Sep 2001 16:41:04 -0400 (EDT) | From | (Wietse Venema) |
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Please stop that BSD versus Linux drivel. Either make a constructive contribution or be silent.
I don't care what API is "superior", as long as it provides me with the information that I want.
Wietse
jamal: > > > On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Wietse Venema wrote: > > > Alan Cox: > > > > Soldiers are marching down the street. The mother of one of those > > > > soldiers is ever so proud. All the other guys are marching out of > > > > step. Her son is the only one who does it right. > > > > > > > > That's what it looks like for a person who writes Internet software > > > > that aims to work on a wide variety of platforms. > > > > > > I think you have the metaphor wrong. The older API is a bit like the > > > cavalry charging into battle at the start of world war one. It may have been > > > how everyone did it but they guys with the "newfangled, really not how it > > > should be done, definitely not cricket" machine guns got the last laugh > > > > Keep your superiority complex out of my mailbox, thank you. > > > > Wietse, > > netlink, as a few people have pointed to you is the 'proper' way to do > things. Sure, the BSDs did it the way you love it, but linux is a > different operating system (cut the "if its not Scottish its crap > mentality"). Netlink does improve on "the way its always been done for > the last 80 years". Infact netlink has already been approved to be (at > least informational) RFC. Look at a slightly dated draft at: > http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-salim-netlink-jhshk-00.txt > Maybe you should preach to the BSDs about netlink? > > cheers, > jamal > > PS:- If you want help on writting netlink based code to achieve what you > are trying to do, just yell. Look at the source for the ip utility which > is within the iproute2 package. > >
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