Re: [PATCH] trivial patch for if_indextoname()

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 26 May 2004 16:15:07 -0600
David Stevens <dlstevens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> RFC3493 (section 4.2) specifies that an invalid interface name
> passed to if_indextoname() should return NULL with errno of ENXIO.
> The current code sets errno to ENODEV for this case.
> 
> This could be remapped in glibc, but since the comment for
> kernel function dev_ifname() says it's specifically for
> if_indextoname(), maybe it should be fixed here.

How is the SIOCGIFNAME interface specified in this case?
(ie. what does BSD do?)  I bet a bunch of stuff will
break if we change this.