Oron Peled (oron@xxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > IMO, my following proposal is only feasible if (and it's a big iff), > the number of system calls and library functions that accept a network > interface name is not large [things like if_nameindex(), the "ifreq" > ioctl()'s, etc.] > > If that's the case, we can map "predictable" names to traditional ones > in user-space, on the entry to said library functions, or entry > to the said glibc syscall wrappers. The problem is that explicitly because network devices have never been enumerable in /dev before, every single utility does it themeselves. Mostly by trawling /sysfs these days, but still... attempting to move to an alternate naming scheme library could/would break everything that only knows how to enumerate the kernel devices. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
