From owner-freebsd-net Mon Jul 29 3:20:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8981137B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 03:20:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vbook.express.ru (asplinux.ru [195.133.213.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2CA243E3B for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 03:20:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vova@express.ru) Received: from vova by vbook.express.ru with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17Z7dY-0000No-00; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:20:24 +0400 Subject: Re: switching to if_xname from if_name and if_unit From: "Vladimir B. " Grebenschikov To: Brooks Davis Cc: "net@freebsd.org" In-Reply-To: <20020726211050.A30598@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20020726211050.A30598@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 29 Jul 2002 14:20:24 +0400 Message-Id: <1027938024.1080.12.camel@vbook.express.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org =F7 Sat, 27.07.2002, =D7 08:10, Brooks Davis =CE=C1=D0=C9=D3=C1=CC: > [Bcc to -arch for interested people not on -net] >=20 > NetBSD and OpenBSD have replaced the "char *if_name" and "int if_unit" > members of struct ifnet with "char if_xname[IFNAMESIZ]". I propose that > we follow suit. > > [... ] > > What do other people think? We need this, it can allow interface renames. > -- Brooks --=20 Vladimir B. Grebenschikov vova@sw.ru, SWsoft, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message