Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > There is no much point in this patch, because it will increase size of > > > struct ifreq, which means that no ioctl's from older apps will be accepted > > > anyway. Therefore, there is no difference between those two, while my > > > approach is obviously cleaner. > > > > It does not increase size of struct ifreq. > > This is a union not a struct as You see. > > Oh, yes, you are obviously correct. However, I still wonder if your patch > is endianless-safe.
It's not, unless the structure packing is "just so". First thing I notices, and exactly what Bruce was pointing out when he referred to "other architectures", I think. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
