No. If you dont emulate AF_INET, SOCK_PACKET properly its a bug. You tell
people to change to this and it doesnt work
> In any case, if packet socket would support SIOCGIFADDR
> it would return ll address rather than IP address.
Perhaps we should cover this case. To start with you do pass the family
to SIOCGIFADDR..
> : > With SOCK_PACKET incoming packets trigger the select; with SOCK_RAW,
> : > they don't.
>
> Umm... when link is down, no packets can arrive, so that I do not
> understand the problem. Apparently, I misunderstood something.
diald watches a fake link (tty/pty pair) when the real one isnt dialed in
> In any case, wrt select they are indistinguishable.
Yes. I cant right now see how select would break for one and not the other