>>>>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 00:07:05 +0900,
>>>>> Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> > SIOCGIFCONF is no good for this on Linux. The sockaddr_in6 structure is
>> > too
>> > big to fit inside struct ifreq.
>> Sockaddr_in6 does not fit in ifreq{} in BSDs, either. But it doesn't
>> matter for us if we carefully parse the result of the ioctl.
> I remember that application increments its pointer manually by
> sizeof(struct sockaddr_in6) - sizeof(struct sockaddr) bytes,
> but it is not good for Linux because we don't know the actual size of
> sockaddr_in6 structure returned from kernel
I don't get it. Why can't you just use sizeof(sockaddr_in6) for
AF_INET6? Are you concerned with padding issues?
> (and would vary if kernel supports sin6_scope_id)
Yes, but it matters during a transition period (from RFC2133 to
RFC2553) only.
JINMEI, Tatuya
Communication Platform Lab.
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
