On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 02:37:16PM +0200, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> >>>>> "David" == David S Miller <davem@redhat.com> writes:
>
> David> Are sure that netstat and other tools don't "fix" this?
> David> I just checked, and they in fact do take care of byte swapping
> David> what needs to be byte-swapped.
>
> David> Thus, this patch would break more than it would fix.
>
> Oops, you're right... Well, let's leave it the way it is.
If you want to have human readable ports it is much better to fix
the socket handling in d_path() to call a socket function. Then you
could read connections by doing a readlink/ls -l on /proc/<pid>/fd/nr
[I did it before 2.2 and it was very nice, but the patch fell to the
code freeze]
-Andi
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