Re: Recent if_stat changes have broken sysutils/xosview

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 9 Feb 2020, Roy Marples wrote:

> > "struct ifnet" is private to the kernel.  This application should be using 
> > the properly exported data that's available via ioctls for this purpose.
>
> We have far too many kernel only things exposed to userland.

Totally agree.

> A constant beef of mine is that we  #define if_type in sys/net/if.h which 
> causes conflict building hostapd/wpa_supplicant has they have an enum 
> if_type.
>
> If we can resolve this it would make me a lot happier!
> I tried to have a go solving this about a year ago, but gave up due to some 
> userland stuff like this no longer working.
> If we can solve it via ioctl then awesome.

For now I am simply commenting out the network stuff completely, since
I don't use that part of xosview.  A proper solution is far beyond me.


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