27 May
2018
27 May
'18
11:01 p.m.
On Mon, 28 May 2018 09:05:06 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'Modern commands like ss and ip use Linux's netlink sockets, which are much more efficient. In theory netstat, ifconfig, and company could be rewritten to use netlink too; in practice this doesn't seem to have happened and there may be political issues involving different groups of developers with different opinions on which way to go.'
Something else to consider is I think the older commands are also found on other POSIXish OSes (i.e. BSD), whereas netlink is a Linux-specific API. Just another step in consigning non-Linux Unixes to museums, I guess...