Re: inconsistency between SIOCGIFCONF and SIOCGIFNAME

[Ulrich Drepper]

Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> The bridge utilities depends on being able to do if_indextoname and
> if_nametoindex for interfaces that aren't active to IP.  Other non-IP
> usage probably does as well.

This is not changed by DaveM's patch.  All the patch does is to cause
SIOCGIFCONF to report all interfaces SIOCGIFINDEX knows about as well.
So now if_indextoname() succeeds only if_indexname() also returns the
interface name, making the three interfaces consistent.

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