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Date:      Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:32:52 +0300
From:      "Igor' Robul'" <igor@raduga.dyndns.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Systems programming questions...
Message-ID:  <20001121193252.B29687@linux.rainbow>
In-Reply-To: <20001121095053.B6568@online.dct.com>; from markm@online.dct.com on Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 09:50:53AM -0600
References:  <20001121092902.A6568@online.dct.com> <20001121173651.C9661@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20001121095053.B6568@online.dct.com>

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On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 09:50:53AM -0600, Mark wrote:
> with the "ifconfig ... alias" system call.  I guess the next step is to look
> at the source for /sbin/ifconfig, like you suggested.
But I think that better is just use execl(3) to execute ifconfig. This
guarant that your C program will work even if somethink in kernel or
ifconfig will be changed. 

-- 
Igor' Robul', Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", 
Sochi, Russia
http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744


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