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From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To: Vsevolod Stakhov <vsevolod@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r278080 - head/sbin/ifconfig
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On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 01:03:05PM +0000, Vsevolod Stakhov wrote:
V> Author: vsevolod (ports committer)
V> Date: Mon Feb  2 13:03:04 2015
V> New Revision: 278080
V> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/278080
V> 
V> Log:
V>   Reorganize the list of addresses associated with an interface and group them
V>   based on the address family. This should help to recognize interfaces with
V>   multiple AF (e.g. ipv4 and ipv6) with many aliases or additional addresses. The
V>   order of addresses inside a single group is strictly preserved.
V>   
V>   Improve the scope_id output for AF_INET6 families, as the
V>   current approach uses hexadecimal string that is basically the ID of an
V>   interface, whilst this information is already depicted by getnameinfo(3) call.
V>   Therefore, now ifconfig just prints the scope of address as it is defined in
V>   2.4 of RFC 2373.
V>   
V>   PR:		197270
V>   Approved by:	bapt
V>   MFC after:	2 weeks

What about getifaddrs(3) sorting addresses?

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