Yes portablity is a concern, unfortunately my program will probably be used on Linux more than FreeBSD, sigh. I starting to read about ioctl() and SIOCGIFADDR which appears to be portable (and a pain).
It looks like the Linux crowd is adding getifaddrs(3) as part of their ipv6 effort, but I'd rather not depend on that. >On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:52:14AM -0700, Chuck T. wrote: > > Excellent, that's just what I was looking for! Thanks. > > >do a man getifaddrs(3) > > > > > >Bruce > >Just be aware that getifaddrs(3) (which does seem to be a quite useful >function) is not very portable. >It appears to be available on recent releases of all the *BSDs, but it >does not seem to exist on Solaris or Linux. > >Now, if you don't need your program to be portable this is of course >not a problem, but writing unportable code should be an informed >decision rather than done out of ignorance. > > >-- ><Insert your favourite quote here.> >Erik Trulsson >[EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
