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Re:Linux maintains bugs: The real reason ifconfig on Linux i... by tyingq on Friday March 20, 2020 @09:33AM (#22637353)
That split where ioctl() is used for ipv4, and the send()/recv()/AF_NETLINK setup for ipv6 is interesting. I'm curious why the Linux folks chose that route. I'd get it as a temporary thing, but shouldn't they have migrated everything onto AF_NETLINK?
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Re:Linux maintains bugs: The real reason ifconfig on Linux i... by yencabulator on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:13PM (#22670401)
That's exactly what happened. Nobody bothered rewriting ifconfig to use the new APIs, because `ip` was the new hotness (and much more flexible and if not saner, at least differently insane).
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