Re: thinking about siocgifconf and friends

[Jeff Bailey]

On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 03:56:08AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> The plethora of network interfaces is really a pain. I will concentrate on
> the most common interfaces for now. I don't have a good overview over all
> interfaces used by different interfaces anyway. We will not have complete
> replacements for the systems ifconfigs for some time, esp. for proprietary
> systems. I will look into the existing linux code, but to be honest, some of
> the linux interfaces are quite messy (for example SIOCGIFHWADDR).

Do you think that there's value in in taking notes and starting an 
'inetutils-devel.texi' file so that the learning that your getting can be 
easily passed on?

-- 
I write portable software for a living, and my code has to compile
with gcc as well as with a variety of other compilers. [...]  If
the price of that is to have Linus Torvalds insult me once in a while,
so be it.
 - Joe Buck http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-01/msg00075.html