On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Julian Elischer wrote:
Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
Xin LI wrote:
While playing with some OpenBSD installation I found that they have an
interesting feature - adding description to a NIC. This is useful for
system administrators to "tag" the interface, also, the ladvd program
has a feature to use the SIOCSIFDESCR ioctl to document the remote CDP
Something similar was rejected at least two times :)
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/83622
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/110720
not rejected..
suffered from lack of enthusiasm maybe.
My point has always been - if I have to add/do an ioctl I can always also
use a library call that will read it from a .txt, .xml, .db file
or whatever and I don't have to go to the kernel, handle all the
string length problems there, ... especially as the kernel cannot do
anything with that string.
/bz
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Bjoern A. Zeeb What was I talking about and who are you again?
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