Re: notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias

[Alan Cox]

> > SIOCGIFCONF is going to give the right data. People doing clever things
> > will have to set up config files. simple easy - hard possible.
> 
> Cool. I will not waste further time on this until someone takes
> SIOCGIFCONF away.

I think that is a reasonable solution. Very few people have configurations
that SIOCGIFCONF cannot properly report. If there are configurations that
are totally sane and SIOCGIFCONF can report but misreports them I consider
it a bug.

Alan