Pretentious Yet Pointless
[Richard Stevens, Unix Network Programming]
Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1217648945 |
| Date: | Sat Aug 23 13:06:32 EDT 2025 |
| Description: |
``If the socket address structure with the interface name is present,
an ifi_info structure is allocated
and the interface flags are stored.
The expected family of this socket address structure is AF_LINK,
indicating a datalink socket address structure.
If the sdl_nlen member is nonzero, then the interface name is
copied into the ifi_info structure.
Otherwise a string containing the interface index is stored
as the name.
If the sdl_nlen member is nonzero, then the hardware address
(e.g. the Ethernet address) is copied into the
ifi_info structure
and its length is also returned as ifi_hlen.''
[Richard Stevens, Unix Network Programming] |
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