Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 23:22:26 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more struct ifnet move lossage. Message-ID: <199710221322.XAA06956@plum.cyber.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199710221243.WAA00847@word.smith.net.au> from "Mike Smith" at Oct 22, 97 10:13:15 pm
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In some mail I received from Mike Smith, sie wrote > > > I'm curious...does tcpdump still compile on -current, `out of the box' ? > > src/usr.sbin/tcpdump, src/contrib/tcpdump. And look ma, no diffs. No, I mean get tcpdump from ftp.ee.lbl.gov and compile that (3.4a5). 10:1 it doesn't compile (I'll put money on it :-). > > (Just to state the obvious, you don't compile tcpdump with -DKERNEL) > > Speaking of stating the obvious; you don't expect to have the > kernel-private data structures that are the subject of so much > vitriolic hatred to stay put, do you? I'm not commenting on this because I've had enough of it. > All of Terry's comments on a procedural interface are 100% on the mark. > If you don't like the grief that the structure changes are causing you, > now is the time to participating in producing a *BETTER* interface. Well, I didn't know they even existed until this nasty little thread... maybe I'm just not on the right freebsd email lists where these sort of things are announced and discussed.
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