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Date:      Fri, 4 Jun 1999 21:19 EDT
From:      Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
To:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: subtle SIOCGIFCONF bug
Message-ID:  <375884220.6584@databus.databus.com>

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You have not said specifically what about SIOCGIFCONF is bad, that
could possibly justify the incredible statement that one should
use a non-portable technique when a portable technique is available.
SIOGIFCONF works on Unixware, Solaris, HP-UX, Irix and FreeBSD, just
to list systems I can access right now.  sysctl excludes all of them
except FreeBSD.  Please explain!

Barney Wolff  <barney@databus.com>

> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 20:43:40 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
> 
> Use an interface which provides clients with enough information to
> know when they have retrieved all of the relevant information.  Here's
> an example.


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