need for getifaddrs in uclibc

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Sun Jan 6 07:56:25 UTC 2008


On Thursday 08 November 2007, Jason Curl wrote:
> Then "sysctl()" is supposed to be the successor of "ioctl()". UNP talks
> about using the routing sockets to get the information for each
> interface (sounds similar to netlink, but different enough).

from what i've seen on lkml, they're trying pretty hard to kill sysctl() since 
it just doesnt scale the way they need to
-mike
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