Re: IPv4 Address Flags

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 2015-04-22 22:24, christos%astron.com@localhost wrote:
> In article <55381013.6070403%marples.name@localhost>,
> Roy Marples  <roy%marples.name@localhost> wrote:
> > diff -u -r1.188 if.h
> > --- sys/net/if.h	20 Apr 2015 10:19:54 -0000	1.188
> > +++ sys/net/if.h	22 Apr 2015 21:03:01 -0000
> > @@ -594,6 +594,7 @@
> > 		struct	sockaddr ifru_broadaddr;
> > 		struct	sockaddr_storage ifru_space;
> > 		short	ifru_flags;
> > +		int	ifru_addrflags;
> > 		int	ifru_metric;
>
> This is an ABI change to all ifreq ioctls... If you are going to do 
> this,
> I'd bite the bullet and bump sockaddr_storage to 256 or 512 bytes and 
> get
> rid of sockaddr_big.

Unless I'm missing something, that's in a union where there's already an 
int so it's not an ABI change?

Roy