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Re: Difference in behaviour between getifaddrs() and ioctl(SIOCGIFCONF)
Am 02.12.2010 18:54, schrieb Jason Curl:
> Linux getifaddrs():
> * eth0 -> AF_INET
> * eth0 -> AF_INET6
>
> Cygwin getifaddrs():
> * {xxx} -> AF_INET6
> * {xxx}:1 -> AF_INET
>
> This is another reason why I think it could be architecturally simpler to just
> have multiple records and to drop the interface indices all together of the form
> ":1".
Is there anything that mandates Linux/Solaris behaviour? Else you might as well
argue with BSD which doesn't have these :N extensions.
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Matthias Andree
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