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.
