Antw.: RFC: depending on getifaddrs in iphlpapi

[André Hentschel]

Why? AFAIK getifaddr was added to at least openSolaris Last year and you still can use the old Code as fallback

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Von: "Juan Lang" <juan.lang(a)gmail.com>
An: "Michael Stefaniuc" <mstefani(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "Wine Devel" <wine-devel(a)winehq.org>
Betreff: RFC: depending on getifaddrs in iphlpapi
Datum: Do., Nov. 10, 2011 18:41
> > I'm thinking of replacing the current IPv4 enumeration code, which
> > uses ioctl/SIOCGIFCONF, with getifaddrs.  The reason I'm leaning
> > toward replacing, rather than adding side-by-side with the current
> > code, is that getifaddrs is commonly available:  it's available on all
> > recent versions of Linux, as well as on FreeBSD and MacOS.  There
> > recent versions of Linux as of which year?

Good question.  When I was writing this code in 2003, the stable
version of Debian didn't support it.  I haven't seen a Linux system
that doesn't support it since then, but I've only checked
periodically.
> > might be some platform somewhere that's disenfranchised by this, but
> > I'm not sure it's worth the code complexity to maintain the current
> > code.
> > What about Solaris/OpenSolaris? That's the only other major system where
> > Wine can be made to run.

Ah.  Okay, that's an important objection.  I'll go with keeping the
current code, then.

Thanks,
--Juan

[Juan Lang]

> Why? AFAIK getifaddr was added to at least openSolaris Last year and you
> still can use the old Code as fallback

Yes, by "keeping the current code" I meant alongside a
getifaddrs-based implementation.
--Juan