Re: Patch to fix /proc/net files.

Matthias Welwarsky (matze@stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de)
Wed, 28 Oct 1998 13:49:31 +0100


Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > This patch should convert /proc/net/{raw,tcp,udp} so that the various
> > IP addresses therein are shown in dotted quad format rather than in
> > little-endian hex integers.
>
> Changing the format is an even worse idea
>

net-tools need the /proc/net stuff quite a lot, and from this point of
view having the data in network byte order would be a good thing, I
think. Only minor changes on application level, and it would ease
maintaining net-tools across the multiple platforms.

Gruss
Matthias

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