Garrett D'Amore writes:
> Peter Memishian wrote:
> >  > files use sizes that won't be truncated.    The ioctls impacted are 
> >  > SIOCGTUNPARAM and SIOCSTUNPARAM.
> >
> > FWLIW, those ioctls are gone in the Clearview gate and will be gone from
> > ON when Clearview IP Tunneling integrates.
> >   
> 
> OK, so let me ask a dumb question.  If the ioctls are gone, are they 
> used by any code outside of ON?  They are certainly documented in 
> tun(7M), but I'm inclined to believe that nothing uses them.

They're gone in the Clearview gate.  That project hasn't integrated
yet, but I would expect that the team has done the homework necessary
to check for other possible users before committing to that course.

> One of my biggest concerns, though, is punchin.  I don't know if punchin 
> makes use of them at all.  (Dan McDonald: can you comment?)

It just calls ifconfig.

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