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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: peter@haywire.DIALix.COM, terry@cs.weber.edu
Subject: Re: Size of SIOCGIFCONF ioctl data structure
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>> 1)	Do it via sysctl anyway.

>Just as a BTW: Is this method fairly consistant across the 4.4BSD type 
>machines? Or are there variations on the way it has been implemented?

Nonstandard sysctls are as unportable as nonstandard ioctls.

Bruce