Re: [PATCH 2.6] vlan ioctl propagation (rev.2)

On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 02:08:36PM +0930, Glen Turner wrote:

   while (virtual_interface(interface_name)) {
     virtual_to_real(interface_name, &interface_name);
   }

This is the sort of nasty detail than operating systems are meant to
abstract away from application code.

What I'm saying is that even userspace should not offer this abstraction.
Remember the past confusion over "ifconfig eth0:1 down" ?

But I'm more than prepared to follow DaveM's lead here, I just want to be
sure people think about this change.

Regards,

bert 

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