From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/5558 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Natanael Copa Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Re: if_nameindex, etc. [Re: Progress towards 1.1.4] Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:58:43 +0200 Message-ID: <20140722105843.2ce1729d@ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org> References: <20140721055907.GA20967@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20140721163109.732e0b41@vostro> <20140721145935.GR17402@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20140721190956.7d70902c@vostro> <20140721161342.GS17402@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406019550 10745 80.91.229.3 (22 Jul 2014 08:59:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:59:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com To: Rich Felker Original-X-From: musl-return-5563-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Tue Jul 22 10:59:03 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 1X9VuY-0006ji-Pn for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:59:02 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 1357 invoked by uid 550); 22 Jul 2014 08:59:01 -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 1332 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2014 08:59:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20140721161342.GS17402@brightrain.aerifal.cx> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-alpine-linux-musl) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:5558 Archived-At: On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:13:42 -0400 Rich Felker wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 07:09:56PM +0300, Timo Teras wrote: > > So +300 bytes in text, but in return there is added functionality such > > as returning the link-level info in PF_PACKET dump (including > > statistics). I also expect the code to be a lot faster: > > One thing I forgot to ask: is there any regression in returning > old-style interface "alias" names, i.e. do things like "eth0:1" still > appear in the output of if_nameindex? Maybe this is an opportunity to get rid of the interface "alias"? it was a hack to make it possible to assign multiple addresses on a single NIC. Do we need support that kind of legacy? -nc