Marie Helene Kvello-Aune wrote: > Hey! > > I'm currently working on a library called 'libifconfig' which will provide > a C API to do the actual work that /sbin/ifconfig currently does, except > that of lib80211. What sparked this project was a wish to simplify > maintenance of the ifconfig program by making it primarily focus on the > user's command line interaction, and not so much on the specifics of how > those things are done behind the scenes. > > One advantage to having such a library is to reduce code duplication and > thus improve maintainability, and another is that it would make it easier > for third party programs to query the network stack without having to spawn > ifconfig and parse its output. I'm sure there's more, but those were the > ones at the top of my head when writing this e-mail.
Hi, This is a great idea. It's a bit disappointing to re-implement common stuff like getting a list of interfaces or obtaining MAC address or IP address of the interface over and over again in third party apps. One question that's interesting to me though: is it planned to provide support for this lib outside of the base? I mean, if the lib will be added in, say, 11.x, and I want to use it from my third-party application, will it be possible to e.g. install it from ports for 9.x or 10.x so I don't have to support 2 version of the code, one that uses libifconfig and one that e.g. parses ifconfig(8) output? Roman Bogorodskiy
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