Re: [PATCH 2.6] vlan ioctl propagation (rev.2)

[bert hubert <ahu@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 02:08:36PM +0930, Glen Turner wrote:

>    while (virtual_interface(interface_name)) {
>      virtual_to_real(interface_name, &interface_name);
>    }
> 
> This is the sort of nasty detail than operating systems are meant to
> abstract away from application code.

What I'm saying is that even userspace should not offer this abstraction.
Remember the past confusion over "ifconfig eth0:1 down" ?

But I'm more than prepared to follow DaveM's lead here, I just want to be
sure people think about this change.

Regards,

bert 

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