Re: Getting local IP addresses from emacs

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Robert Pluim <address@hidden> writes:

> I was thinking of reworking 'network-interface-list' to use
> 'getifaddrs' instead of the ioctls it does now, which would get all
> the interfaces, and (optionally) return the netmask/broadcast
> info.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

> The only issue there is that the returned interface names would
> no longer be unique.

Under what circumstances wouldn't the names be unique?

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