[PATCH] New getifaddrs implementation

Roland McGrath roland@redhat.com
Fri Mar 28 21:33:00 GMT 2003


> On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 07:16:51PM +0100, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> 
> > here is the next try of a IPv6 ready getifaddrs() implementation.
> 
> What's the best way to share this with a non-Linux OS that uses netlink? 
> Hisham Kotry is working on an IP stack for the Hurd that uses netlink,
> and it would be nice to have that code in a common location.

For now syspdes/unix/sysv/linux is fine for the netlink code.  If there is
Hurd support later, it can always use #include to avoid actual copying.
Later it could perhaps move into sysdeps/gnu, i.e. be joined with the ioctl
implementation there now.



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