Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 08:33:15 +0800 (WST) From: Peter Wemm <peter@haywire.DIALix.COM> To: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Size of SIOCGIFCONF ioctl data structure Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.91.950603082739.20848B-100000@haywire.DIALix.COM> In-Reply-To: <9506021825.AA29035@cs.weber.edu>
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On Fri, 2 Jun 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > [ ... how to count interfaces ... ] > > > Opinions? > > In preference order: > > 1) Do it via sysctl anyway. Just as a BTW: Is this method fairly consistant across the 4.4BSD type machines? Or are there variations on the way it has been implemented? > 2) Do it the Sun way. Yep. IMHO, third-party code is far more likely going to get "#ifdef SIOCGIFNUM" than a sysctl() rewrite, especially since Sun, HP, AIX, etc dont have sysctl(). I think named would be a good candidate to be in group 1), because Paul Vixie uses BSD/OS, so he'd be able to test it. -Peter
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