On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 19:45 +0530, Vivek S wrote:
> I can spawn ifconfig, but then how do i recognize errors?
> 

You can tell whether the operation failed or not based on ifconfig's
exit status.  The problem is that you won't have fine-grained error
semantics programatically (it would be unwise to parse the error strings
printed to ifconfig's stderr).

-Seb


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