Re: [PATCH 1/1] include/uapi/linux/sockios.h: mark SIOCRTMSG unused

From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Date: Wed Dec 30 2015 - 05:56:45 EST


Hi Heinrich,

On 12/29/2015 11:22 PM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> IOCTL SIOCRTMSG does nothing but return EINVAL.
>
> So comment it as unused.

Can you say something about how you confirmed this?
It's not immediately obvious from the code.

Cheers,

Michael


> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx>
> ---
> include/uapi/linux/sockios.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/sockios.h b/include/uapi/linux/sockios.h
> index e888b1a..8e7890b 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/sockios.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/sockios.h
> @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
> /* Routing table calls. */
> #define SIOCADDRT 0x890B /* add routing table entry */
> #define SIOCDELRT 0x890C /* delete routing table entry */
> -#define SIOCRTMSG 0x890D /* call to routing system */
> +#define SIOCRTMSG 0x890D /* unused */
>
> /* Socket configuration controls. */
> #define SIOCGIFNAME 0x8910 /* get iface name */
>


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