From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 14:18:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 14:18:18 -0400 Received: from spike.porcupine.org ([168.100.189.2]:45577 "EHLO spike.porcupine.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 14:18:06 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19 In-Reply-To: <200109061806.WAA12629@ms2.inr.ac.ru> "from kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru at Sep 6, 2001 10:06:24 pm" To: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 14:18:26 -0400 (EDT) Cc: Matthias Andree , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, wietse@porcupine.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk X-Time-Zone: USA EST, 6 hours behind central European time X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20010906181826.9CCECBC06C@spike.porcupine.org> From: wietse@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru: > Hello! > > > Sure, because the interface is broken. > > It is __legacy__ interface. > > > Solaris 8 does not fail, > > That's all, the issue is closed. Soldiers are marching down the street. The mother of one of those soldiers is ever so proud. All the other guys are marching out of step. Her son is the only one who does it right. That's what it looks like for a person who writes Internet software that aims to work on a wide variety of platforms. Ah. That feels better. Wietse