From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Cc: timo.teras@iki.fi, justin@specialbusservice.com
Subject: Re: if_nameindex/getifaddrs and dhcpcd issue
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 16:23:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140408162310.1ba626c8@ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140408152559.124030b1@vostro>
On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 15:25:59 +0300
Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi> wrote:
> IMHO, if someone wants to be linux compatible today, it's easier to
> implement the netlink stuff; than the /proc stuff. /proc has equally
> linux specific things in it and is mainly intended to be human
> readable with few exceptions. /sys would be better option as it's
> inteded to be machine readable, but it's still text too.
But /sys is not claimed to be stable so location can move around.
Not sure we can use it for network interfaces.
Basically we want wants in /sys/class/net but sysfs-rules says thats
kernel implementation details and might change.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt
We could probably scan /sys/device for dirs named 'net' but that's not
prettier than /proc.
-nc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-08 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-08 9:11 Natanael Copa
2014-04-08 10:07 ` Justin Cormack
2014-04-08 12:25 ` Timo Teras
2014-04-08 14:23 ` Natanael Copa [this message]
2014-04-08 15:45 ` Rich Felker
2014-04-08 16:08 ` Timo Teras
2014-04-08 16:19 ` Justin Cormack
2014-04-08 22:41 ` Rich Felker
2014-04-09 7:17 ` u-igbb
2014-04-09 22:20 ` Rich Felker
2014-04-09 22:32 ` Justin Cormack
2014-04-10 7:40 ` u-igbb
2014-04-10 7:52 ` Rich Felker
2014-04-09 14:02 ` Timo Teras
2014-04-10 0:55 ` Rich Felker
2014-04-09 7:55 ` Natanael Copa
2014-04-08 12:54 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2014-04-08 13:42 ` Rich Felker
2014-04-08 14:16 ` Justin Cormack
2014-04-08 15:38 ` Rich Felker
2014-04-09 7:13 ` Natanael Copa
2014-04-09 22:18 ` Rich Felker
2014-04-08 21:16 ` Natanael Copa
2014-04-08 21:30 ` Justin Cormack
2014-04-08 22:59 ` Rich Felker
2014-04-08 14:27 ` Natanael Copa
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