Re: [PATCH] ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19

[wietse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Wietse Venema)]

Alan Cox:
> > Soldiers are marching down the street. The mother of one of those
> > soldiers is ever so proud.  All the other guys are marching out of
> > step.  Her son is the only one who does it right.
> > 
> > That's what it looks like for a person who writes Internet software
> > that aims to work on a wide variety of platforms.
> 
> I think you have the metaphor wrong. The older API is a bit like the 
> cavalry charging into battle at the start of world war one. It may have been
> how everyone did it but they guys with the "newfangled, really not how it
> should be done, definitely not cricket"  machine guns got the last laugh

Keep your superiority complex out of my mailbox, thank you.

        Wietse