[Lcdproc] Calling NetBSD and Darwin developers: Iface fixes

[Peter Marschall]

Hi,

On Sunday, 2. September 2007 23:49, Markus Dolze wrote:
> while working on the FreeBSD lcdproc client network code, I found a few
> small errors, which I also fixed for the other two BSD style
> implementations:
>
> 1. If an interface priviously been UP goes DOWN, the time when the
> interface changed would always show the current time.
> 2. If an active interface is removed from the system, the server would
> still show the old screens and the user will not get any notice.
> 3. The "first run" detection would not work if more than one interface
> is monitored. Now the "last_online" time is used, because this is an
> "per interface" value initialized to 0 at startup.
> 4. The TRUE/FALSE macros are used for the return values as in the other
> functions.
>
> I'm asking myself whether the change 3 is really usefull. Without the
> change the up / down speed would be shown incorrectly for the first two
> seconds. Anyway, we do currently not detect counter wraps and resets
> where this would happen, too.
>
> Please test the changes made above!

Since this change looks a bit more intrusive than the one
I just committed, I will give testers another week to test
it before I commit it to CVS.

So, Darwin and NetBSD users out there, if you fear this 
patch breaks the lcdproc client, please test and speak up.

If I do not get a negative answer within a week these changes
will go into LCDproc CVS

Markus, as always: thanks a lot.

Regards
Peter

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Peter Marschall
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