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Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 07:05:14 +0100
From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: joshk@triplehelix.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: consistent ioctl for getting all net interfaces?
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On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 10:57:59PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 06:35:38AM +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> > ASCII is tough, let's go shopping?
> > [snip code i already have]
> 
> I always found parsing files in C ugly, but I guess I have no choice
> then.

I would argue that ioctl() is inherently ugly, regardless of the language
used to call it.  _And_ ioctl-based variant will actually take more code.

> Thanks anyway.