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 15:59:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:59:47 -0400 Received: from spike.porcupine.org ([168.100.189.2]:47626 "EHLO spike.porcupine.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:59:38 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19 In-Reply-To: "from Alan Cox at Sep 6, 2001 08:45:19 pm" To: Alan Cox Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:59:58 -0400 (EDT) Cc: Wietse Venema , kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, Matthias Andree , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com 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: <20010906195958.222DFBC06C@spike.porcupine.org> From: wietse@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox: > > 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. > > I think you have the metaphor wrong. The older API is a bit like the > cavalry charging into battle at the start of world war one. It may have been > how everyone did it but they guys with the "newfangled, really not how it > should be done, definitely not cricket" machine guns got the last laugh Keep your superiority complex out of my mailbox, thank you. Wietse