--7ZAtKRhVyVSsbBD2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mauricio Fern?ndez (batsman.geo / yahoo.com) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:37:38AM +0900, Eric Hodel wrote: > >=20 > > ifconfig should be virtually the same everywhere, so parsing should be > > something like this: (works on FreeBSD) > > http://segment7.net/ruby-code/snippits/get_ip.rb >=20 > Great! I have been reading ifconfig's (net-tools's) sources, and > apparently that info is taken from /proc/net/ (under Linux at least) and > using ioctl, and I guess parsing is more portable than trying ioctl > magic...=20 Remember, UNIX is about processing text, don't worry about all the messy internals unless you need to :) --=20 Eric Hodel - drbrain / segment7.net - http://segment7.net All messages signed with fingerprint: FEC2 57F1 D465 EB15 5D6E 7C11 332A 551C 796C 9F04 --7ZAtKRhVyVSsbBD2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+NN8yMypVHHlsnwQRAmeCAJ9FAVnaYy71KT+UxFGTV8ag19MECwCgs2Rp STeRRqDslrD9axausVc4xBM= =tMDM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7ZAtKRhVyVSsbBD2-- Mauricio Fern?ndez (batsman.geo / yahoo.com) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:37:38AM +0900, Eric Hodel wrote: > >=20 > > ifconfig should be virtually the same everywhere, so parsing should be > > something like this: (works on FreeBSD) > > http://segment7.net/ruby-code/snippits/get_ip.rb >=20 > Great! I have been reading ifconfig's (net-tools's) sources, and > apparently that info is taken from /proc/net/ (under Linux at least) and > using ioctl, and I guess parsing is more portable than trying ioctl > magic...=20 Remember, UNIX is about processing text, don't worry about all the messy internals unless you need to :) --=20 Eric Hodel - drbrain / segment7.net - http://segment7.net All messages signed with fingerprint: FEC2 57F1 D465 EB15 5D6E 7C11 332A 551C 796C 9F04 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+NN8yMypVHHlsnwQRAmeCAJ9FAVnaYy71KT+UxFGTV8ag19MECwCgs2Rp STeRRqDslrD9axausVc4xBM= =tMDM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----