On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 12:22:32PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
  | On Thu, 15 May 2003, Martin Husemann wrote:
  | 
  | > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:39:31AM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
  | > > Even for host tools?
  | >
  | > Probably not. (And I can't spot any host tool that would be able to make
  | > use of it at first sight)
  | 
  | I don't think there should be any, but I think it's safest to just say,
  | "except for host tools." :-) That way it's the responsibility of the
  | changer to make sure it's not a host tool.

We can always provide a tools/compat implementation of getifaddrs(3)...

It would certainly be more portable than the myriad methods of
determining available interfaces that exist before conversion to
getifaddrs(3) ...