[Toybox] Entering the home stretch on ifconfig...

[Bastian Bittorf]

* Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> [10.06.2013 11:26]:
> On 06/07/2013 01:11:50 AM, Bastian Bittorf wrote:
> >* Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> [07.06.2013 07:57]:
> >> It looks like show_iface() enumerates /proc/net/dev and then calls
> >> readconf() to do ioctl() based enumeration. The /proc one gives
> >us RX
> >> bytes and such, the ioctl gives us a "virtual interface" (ala lo:0 I
> >
> >dont use the deprecated one, but /sys/class/net/
> >or even "better" via netlink.
> 
> I didn't write this code, I'm just cleaning it up. Patches welcome.
> 
> Where is it deprecated? Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt currently
> says (line 1029):

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true...seems to be an "unwritten law". at least
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
says: "_The_ filesystem for exporting kernel objects."

i just wrote it on my todo-list...

bye, bastian