Pretentious Yet Pointless
Semiotically, we see the short vertical line symbolising the self curve back and forth, suggesting inconstancy.
Paradoxically, we see the short vertical line representing power and authority undulate towards the centre of the carving, suggesting inconstancy. The viewer is drawn by the scale and openness of the image into the world of graceful lissome curves.
``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]