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Date:      Thu, 20 May 1999 12:13:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        pb@FreeBSD.org (Pierre Beyssac), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if_var.h
Message-ID:  <199905201613.MAA18325@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199905201538.IAA02589@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
References:  <199905192300.QAA45814@freefall.freebsd.org> <199905201538.IAA02589@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>

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<<On Thu, 20 May 1999 08:38:22 -0700 (PDT), "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> said:

> HEADSUP -- This will require compilation of many userland applications
> that have to deal with networking code due to the change in the size
> of the struct.  In particular anything that prints route metrics or
> tries to deal with them will barf :-(.

If it does, it's got a seriously erroneous implementation.  User-land
code has no business looking at struct ifaddr.

-GAWollman

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