Trivial implementation of SIOCGIFCOUNT.
If you search the archives, this was suggested and rejected
6 years ago. But there maybe legacy Unix applications that
could actually use it.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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net/core/dev.c | 50
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:12:26 -0700
> Trivial implementation of SIOCGIFCOUNT.
> If you search the archives, this was suggested and rejected
> 6 years ago. But there maybe legacy Unix applications that
> could actually use it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephe
> Please also tell me what legacy application could actually
> use this thing when BSD itself doesn't even implement it?
Some version of java seems to. I see a lot of:
ioctl32(java:30851): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(8938){00} arg(bfbb87c4) on
socket:[334628709]
But just rejecting it is probabl