On Apr 25, 2005, at 8:10 PM, Jonathan Stone wrote:

>>> I.e. it is only by convention that these things are called
>>> "aliases".  It's all due to undocumented magic that the semantics  
>>> are
>>> the way they are.
>>>
>
> If you mean my use of alias, I really meant SIOCSIFALIAS or whatever
> it was calld. Unless, as above, I am suffering a Senior Moment here.

I seem to recall that SIOCSIFALIAS was just a brutal hack.   
SIOCSIFADDR would replace the "first" address on the list with the  
one specified, and they needed a new ioctl that would simply "add" to  
the list.

Maybe it's me who is having a Senior Moment (ahem), but that's what I  
remember...

-- thorpej