From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 03:44:57 -0500 [sigh, I meant to have said that we can support IFF_PROMISC for SIOCGIFFLAGS -only-, until the end of time. I agree with you that SIOCSIFFLAGS+IFF_PROMISC clearly is unsupportable.] Then you will break more than what you claim is broken right now. At least the current code RESPECTS setting IFF_PROMISC if an app uses SIOCSIFFLAGS to do it, your version would not. I think you'll be breaking more apps that way, in fact right off the bat your version will break all current NMAP binaries out there. That's just the first thing I checked, there are surely several other examples. The more and more I look at this situation, the more and more I respect Alexey's decision to implement things how they are now. It is the the only reasonable choice, really... - : 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
