Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] AIX: gtk problem solved, now an ethereal problem

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From: Laurent Deniel <deniel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 22:46:28 +0100
Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > To make it work as the other unix, we have to use OSIOCGIFCONF instead of
> > SIOCGIFCONF on AIX.
> 
> "libpcap" also uses SIOCGIFCONF; does it also need to be changed to use
> OSIOCGIFCONF on AIX?

That depends on the libpcap code, if there is no special construction
(e.g. #ifdef AIX) to handle the specificity of the AIX ioctl, the code
is likely broken and the Old ioctl should be used also (I have no time
to check now).

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