need for getifaddrs in uclibc

Jason Curl jcurlnews at arcor.de
Wed Nov 7 18:39:11 UTC 2007


Natanael Copa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know a susv3/POSIX compliant way to list all ipv6
> interfaces? I bet there are no. ioctl(SIOCGIFCONF) ignores ipv6
> interfaces, I just tested.
>   
What does ifconfig do in BusyBox? Does that do what you want?

When I implemented something across multiple platforms only for IPv4 
that was a real nightmare (Solaris, Linux, uClibc, FreeBSD, Cygwin).
> I suggest implementing a getifaddrs in uclibc, even if its not
> susv3/POSIX.
>
> -nc
>
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