any real rationale for "for_all_interfaces()"??

[walter harms]

i have some expamples for if_nameindex and friends. send me a mail if 
you need something.
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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, walter harms wrote:
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>> how many functions will iterate over all interfaces ? NTL: glibc has
>> a series of if_* functions. perhaps this is something you need ?
> 
> perhaps.  it just seemed to me that, while it's clearly useful to have
> some kind of mechanism to iterate over [insert generic kind of object
> here], the way it's done in interface.c to iterate over the system's
> interfaces seems of limited usefulness as it's not really extensible.
> and it seems overly complicated as well.
> 
> i'm still looking at it to see if i can simplify it somewhat.
> 
> rday
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