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From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Proposed roadmap to 1.0
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 15:41:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130724194146.GX3249@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130725002506.63f0ad52@sibserver.ru>

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:25:06AM +0800, orc wrote:
> > > I faced problem when I tried to build dhcpcd with musl. I
> > > dropped dhcpcd then, found simple default.script for udhcpc and
> > > forgot about any problems.
> > 
> > Do you know what dhcpcd needs it for? If it's just automatic binding
> > when you don't specify an interface, that's probably a bad idea
> > anyway... But maybe we should support it.
> 
> It listed interfaces internally, compared command line argument with
> each, and if not found, exited with error. An interface of question was
> down at the moment, so was not listed by getifaddrs().

OK, this is just gratuitous brokenness/non-portability. if_nametoindex
can be used to check whether an interface name is valid, and
if_nameindex gives you a list of all interfaces.

Rich


      reply	other threads:[~2013-07-24 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-29 23:50 Rich Felker
2013-06-30  2:53 ` Rob Landley
2013-06-30  3:01   ` Rich Felker
2013-06-30  5:20 ` Isaac
2013-06-30  5:34   ` Rich Felker
2013-06-30  6:42     ` Isaac
2013-06-30  7:21       ` Justin Cormack
2013-06-30 12:02         ` Rich Felker
2013-07-04 18:13         ` Rob Landley
2013-07-07 20:25           ` Isaac
2013-07-04 18:10       ` Rob Landley
2013-07-07 20:30         ` Isaac
2013-06-30  9:24     ` Rob Landley
2013-06-30 10:45     ` Szabolcs Nagy
2013-06-30 21:29       ` Luca Barbato
2013-07-05 15:12   ` Rob Landley
2013-06-30  5:49 ` Strake
2013-07-17 16:02 ` Rich Felker
2013-07-24 18:36   ` Rob Landley
2013-07-24 19:47     ` Rich Felker
2013-07-25  7:25       ` Daniel Cegiełka
2013-07-25  7:40         ` Rich Felker
2013-07-27  5:30       ` Rob Landley
2013-07-25 10:29     ` Timo Teras
2013-07-24 14:14 ` orc
2013-07-24 14:42   ` Rich Felker
2013-07-24 15:29     ` orc
2013-07-24 16:04       ` Rich Felker
2013-07-24 16:25         ` orc
2013-07-24 19:41           ` Rich Felker [this message]

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