[usocket-devel] Determining the local host address from wildcard host

[Elliott Slaughter]

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Hans Hübner <hans.huebner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Elliott,
>
> to my knowledge, usocket does not provide an API to get a list of all
> network interfaces, which is what you need to do if you want to know
> the local IP address(es).
>
> One quick workaround is to invoke ifconfig and parse the output.  I
> know that this is not a very satisfying or portable approach, but it
> is quick.
>

Thanks. I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.

Supposing that I wanted to find a more portable solution, would I need to
write a custom CFFI wrapper over gethostbyname or getaddrinfo? And would
this sort of functionality be considered for inclusion in usocket?

-- 
Elliott Slaughter

"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict
the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
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