From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/4859 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: if_nameindex/getifaddrs and dhcpcd issue Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 18:20:41 -0400 Message-ID: <20140409222041.GK26358@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20140408111147.5f79729f@ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org> <20140408152559.124030b1@vostro> <20140408154537.GG26358@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20140408190807.7dc6b184@vostro> <20140408224112.GH26358@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20140409071714.GB21662@example.net> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1397082061 13323 80.91.229.3 (9 Apr 2014 22:21:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 22:21:01 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-4863-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Thu Apr 10 00:20:54 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WY0rW-0001Gp-GH for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 00:20:54 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 11882 invoked by uid 550); 9 Apr 2014 22:20:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 11871 invoked from network); 9 Apr 2014 22:20:53 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140409071714.GB21662@example.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:4859 Archived-At: On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 09:17:14AM +0200, u-igbb@aetey.se wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 06:41:12PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote: > > As an aside, whether netlink is essential for a full-function modern > > linux system is orthogonal to whether libc should be using it. A > > hypothetical non-linux kernel providing linux syscall abi could > > provide completely different net config utils. > > (I can not help wondering why you call this hypothetical, > routinely using my "linux" binaries on *BSD. > Oh wait, was it because mentioning demons' names is inappropriate? :) Does if_nameindex "work" (modulo the issues with it) on BSD linux emulation now, and would it fail if we switched to netlink or /proc based? This is not necessarily a show-stopper but it would be nice if we had a workaround, and it's something where we should have input from users running musl binaries on BSD. Rich