Stefan Sperling <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 12:58:27PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > Claudio Jeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > Honestly I think this is overkill. There is no stat struct where we do
> > > this dance. It is accepted that netstat needs to keep in sync for these
> > > structs to work. Why is it necessary to disconnect the kernel and userland
> > > for this?
> > 
> > Actually there is a major one: it is how ps works.
> > 
> > I think the problem is when this struct is changed, ifconfig becomes 
> > unusable?
> 
> In this case it is not ifconfig, but netstat -W iwm0.
> Which is a debugging tool, like netstat -s.

We don't care when netstat breaks

But we really care when ifconfig breaks, in particular in the area of the
"media" command related things.

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