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Message-ID: <20140722105843.2ce1729d@ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:58:43 +0200
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@...inelinux.org>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: if_nameindex, etc. [Re: Progress towards 1.1.4]
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:13:42 -0400
Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> 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
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