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Date:      Fri, 4 Jun 1999 20:45:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: subtle SIOCGIFCONF bug
Message-ID:  <199906050045.UAA12551@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199906050029.RAA85352@bubba.whistle.com>
References:  <199906050023.UAA12466@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199906050029.RAA85352@bubba.whistle.com>

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<<On Fri, 4 Jun 1999 17:29:27 -0700 (PDT), Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> said:

>> [I wrote:]
>> The user programs should not use SIOCGIFCONF.

> I was hoping for a little more information than that.

> OK, imagine a world where you had no choice. THEN what would the answer be?

1) Implement sysctl net-route-iflist.
2) The user programs should not use SIOCGIFCONF.

-GAWollman

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