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 14:51:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 14:51:09 -0400 Received: from spike.porcupine.org ([168.100.189.2]:19722 "EHLO spike.porcupine.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 14:51:04 -0400 Subject: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19 In-Reply-To: <20010906203646.A11741@gruyere.muc.suse.de> "from Andi Kleen at Sep 6, 2001 08:36:46 pm" To: Andi Kleen Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 14:51:24 -0400 (EDT) Cc: Wietse Venema , Alan Cox , Christopher Friesen , Matthias Andree , Linux-Kernel mailing list , linux-net@vger.kernel.org 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: <20010906185124.42C37BC06C@spike.porcupine.org> From: wietse@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen: > [Sending a similar mail for the third time now; you conveniently chosed > to ignore all earlier ones of me in the discussion. I will not send another > one, but just quietly think "Wietse is a moron" before forgetting the issue] Oh, come on. I was asking for more than RTFM. > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:23:26PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > > On a more serious note, what portable primitives does Linux offer > > to look up all interface IP addresses and their corresponding > > netmasks? > > man rtnetlink 7 It's not portable as you may believe. [root@redhat52 /root]# man rtnetlink No manual entry for rtnetlink This was released only three years ago. But it does not matter. The code needs to be written anyway. Do you have more to share than RFTM? Pointers to code? Wietse