[Olsr-users] OLSRd Runtime Issue

[Henning Rogge]

Yes,

I remember... I wanted to get more data before we change things on a
level that deep. I think we got more data, the flag seems to depend on
some userspace tools and might be unreliable. Lets just remove it from
the linux part of the code.

Henning

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Ferry Huberts <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> I'm for not doing anything.
> On my Fedora 19 machine the running flag is correctly set by
> NetworkManager, so it seems that an older version had a bug.
>
>
> I looked into this before and I seem to recall that I talked to you
> about it Henning.
>
> See
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11679514/what-is-the-difference-between-iff-up-and-iff-running
> and
> http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch14.html#t3
>
> I think for Linux we can remove the running flag but not for bsd.
>
> I had some patches for this a while ago but dropped them.
>
> Commit 6f25817dd2ceb18a8bdf95166885feab8b7cf84b introduced it.
> IFF_UP and IFF_RUNNING are used in these 3 files:

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