From: Justin Cormack <justin@specialbusservice.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: if_nameindex/getifaddrs and dhcpcd issue
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 23:32:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK4o1Wy+B6fsBJ2ZeLEq97utTvuxfagYPWBxKD-=EehM3b2x-w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140409222041.GK26358@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
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On Apr 9, 2014 11:20 PM, "Rich Felker" <dalias@aerifal.cx> wrote:
>
> 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.
NetBSD has (optional) Linux /proc emulation. I will check the state of the
current emulation for the nameindex. There is no netlink emulation. As I
write the tests I get some influence...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-09 22:32 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
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 [this message]
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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