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Hello!
I'm using the entries in "/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/{all,<devname>}" to
enable or disable certain additional features of the kernel's network
code.
In "include/linux/inetdevice.h" some entries are defined with logical ANDs
and some are defined with logical ORs.
My simple question is:
Why isn't this done in a consistent way, which is transparent to the user?
If there is a special need to use ANDs and ORs, why isn't this visible from
the outside? I had to look into the kernel's source to see the difference!
An idea I had, was using "../all" for ORs and (a new) "../global" for ANDs.
If there is no reason, why not change it? And please do not argue with
"the holy grail of compatibility" - as far as I saw, most users did not
realize, that there is a difference and simply set all "../all" to 1 all
the time!
Regards
Sven Anders
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