[chef] Re: Re: Ohai 0.6.12.rc.1 released

[Erik Hollensbe < >]

On Feb 10, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Bryan McLellan wrote:

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Bryan McLellan < "> > wrote:

There is also fixed support for Scientific Linux, added support for

Oracle, and an important iproute2 fix for Arch users.

Caleb Tennis reminded me on twitter this morning that the iproute2
change [8] actually switches to use the 'ip' command over the
'ifconfig' command to gather network information for all Linux
distributions, not just Arch.a

I know I'm late to the party, but I have some code that solves this problem in C. Would you find it useful?

https://github.com/erikh/unixinfo/blob/master/ext/unixinfo/unixinfo_native.c#L50-172

No need for scanning ifconfig, iproute, etc -- just ask the kernel; it's working currently on FreeBSD, Linux, and OS X. :)

-Erik