From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:26:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:25:54 -0400 Received: from spike.porcupine.org ([168.100.189.2]:55055 "EHLO spike.porcupine.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:25:42 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19 In-Reply-To: <20010910100537.W26627@khan.acc.umu.se> "from David Weinehall at Sep 10, 2001 10:05:37 am" To: David Weinehall Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:26:03 -0400 (EDT) Cc: Alan Cox , Wietse Venema , kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, 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: <20010910122603.80CA4BC06C@spike.porcupine.org> From: wietse@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Weinehall: > Are you saying that Linux should implement compability with _new_ > features in FreeBSD 4.x, while at the same time frowning at the fact > that Linux introduces a new API?! The mind boggles at the thought. SIOCGIFNETMASK is not "new". It exists in systems as ancient as SunOS 4.x, which pre dates FreeBSD 4.x by about 10 years. Evidence: RTFM the Postfix source code :-) In other words, SIOCGIFNETMASK existed long before Linux could plug into a network. Wietse