Re: inconsistency between SIOCGIFCONF and SIOCGIFNAME

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明]

In article <40E24573.5030403@xxxxxxxxxx> (at Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:45:39 -0700), Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.

--yoshfuji
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