From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 02:01:06 -0500 Why must that affect SIOCGIFFLAGS reporting? Because it is asking for a boolean and we don't have a boolean to give to it. Like I said, apps should ask for the count because that is what it is, a count. it broke a security program that called that ioctl to check for unwanted promisc users A program which should also be fixed to ask for the count. I know what you want, you want IFF_PROMISC to be (dev->promisc_count != 0), but I'm not going to publish that from SIOCGIFFLAGS for several reasons: 1) It has lousy semantics, in short it's stupid. 2) If I fix change this behavior today, people will still need to ask explicitly for the count to handle any kernel before 2.4.19preX/2.2.2X-preX/2.5.5-preX So be realistic, there is nothing to gain by the change you propose. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
