On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 11:13 -0800, Juan Lang wrote: > I'm not the decider here, really. Alexandre is. While I'd like to see my > recent patch get in because it removes a lot of unnecessary junk from > ifenum.c and improves the situation for most people, it's not the end of > the story. Wine's policy is to try to run on as many systems as possible, > regardless of what system it was built on. From that perspective, using > your approach is more correct. Assuming my patch from today gets in, feel > free to improve on it.
Got it. I have something that works for my product (rh8 based, wine 20050419). I'll keep an eye on this when we get around to upgrading. I think what makes most sense is to use if_nameindex() unless it is known not to work, using if_indextoname() only as a work around. Seems like this could be done with a config flag, given that the only time you'll see the problem is on a system with the old libc which means that the wine was also built against the old libc. So a compile time flag would do the trick. Does that sound right, or does it have to be detected at runtime? - mo
