Hi! On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 15:18:22 +0100, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > it seems to me that the linux-ism in /proc/net/dev is the > cause for a dozen errors from "ifdown" at shutdown. The > complaints are non-existent interface names. The explanation > is that "/proc/net/dev" mentions "eth0", while the correct > interface is "bge0", and the like, in GNU/kFreeBSD.
I've also been bothered by this for a long time, but never took the time to investigate much. The actual problem is that halt does try to shut down all network interfaces before finishing, but it uses SIOCGIFCONF which has some portability quirks. So the compatibility in /proc/net/dev is not really a problem here, and reverting the interface name mapping done in the kernel (just one line would need to be changed) might break some stuff making use of it, and it would need some testing with several tools before doing so. > Is this situation being remedied in some manner? I've a patch now that fixes this, I've to do some final polishing and then I'll submit it to sysvinit. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101209092951.gb22...@gaara.hadrons.org
