On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 16:06 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 00:26:13 +0200
Harald Welte [off-list ref] wrote:

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As stated before, I would like to change rt_stat and ct_stat in order to
include a first 'template' line, too.  This way it is easier to write a
generic foo_stat program, that could deal with any of those statistics
files, even with new ones...  but this of course would break existing
rtstat binaries.  I personally  don't care, since it's a little-known
and little-used feature, which to my knowledge is in a lot of
distributions either non-existant [Debian] or incompatible [SuSE]. What
do you think?

I agree.  And while we're add it let's get a fixed rtstat into
iproute2 and make sure that binary gets installed by default
so maybe the dists will start shipping it properly.

I have the old one in the repository.