From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 05:24:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 05:24:12 -0400 Received: from tangens.hometree.net ([212.34.181.34]:18329 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 05:24:02 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: forge.intermeta.de!not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19 Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 09:24:21 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: <9na3o5$c9$1@forge.intermeta.de> In-Reply-To: <20010906204104.A3FBDBC06C@spike.porcupine.org> <20010906232033.L13547@emma1.emma.line.org> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 999854661 26691 212.34.181.4 (7 Sep 2001 09:24:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 09:24:21 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2001 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matthias Andree writes: >See it from the user-space programmer's point of view. Imagine you're >developing your software on FreeBSD or Solaris, or whatever. Now imagine >a client/user asks you about Linux support. You figure Linux does an So you actually say "make it the way BSD does, because that's what we know and support". Sheesh. Why don't you just use Netlink and start preaching to the BSD and Solaris folks that "this is the way how it should be done". I'd say there are more Linux machines than BSD and Solaris combined out there. With this attitude, why don't you program WIN32? It's even more widespread. And Mr. Veenema has the guts to talk about "superiority complex"? Please. If you want to write Software for Platform "L", use the APIs of platform "L", not the legacy compatibility layer that "L" has to support some old "B" applications. With this attitude you will be stuck with "B" applications for the next twenty years. Or until "B" decides to change its API when you will come running to the "A" authors to demand that they must now change their legacy API to support "B+". Regards Henning P.S.: My personal conclusion: I go with sendmail ;-) -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de Am Schwabachgrund 22 Fon.: 09131 / 50654-0 info@intermeta.de D-91054 Buckenhof Fax.: 09131 / 50654-20