any real rationale for "for_all_interfaces()"??

[Rob Landley]

On Monday 19 June 2006 7:45 am, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, walter harms wrote:
> > 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.

I'm not even _looking_ at that until I've simplified the shared archiver 
infrastructure.  But if you submit a patch, I'll look at that. :)

Everybody understands a for loop when they see it.  This is a good thing.

Rob
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