Subject: Re: ifconfig breakage
To: enami tsugutomo <enami@sm.sony.co.jp>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/07/2000 00:33:51
On Mar 7,  2:01pm, enami@sm.sony.co.jp (enami tsugutomo) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: ifconfig breakage

| It looks like:
| 
| 	Many routine uses global variable `ifr' but sa_family in it is
| 	just initialized at very first.  So, for example setting flags
| 	overwrite it (since sockaddr and flags are overlaps in struct
| 	ifreq) and no one reset it.
| 
| Not so simple?

I understand. But what is the choice? Live with requiring COMPAT_43
forever?

christos