extunix dependency can be replaced by tuntap
avsm opened this issue · 5 comments
The https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-tuntap exposes getifaddrs that is parsed into an Ipaddr.t already. That would remove Extunix with a smaller library in the form of tuntap in config_parser.ml
Yep, we could do that, but I've started rewriting extunix's recvmsg to be able to have multiple ancillary control options, basically I need IP_RECVIF in bsds and PKTINFO in linux. Extunix doesn't use ctypes which makes it kinda painful.
Yeah binding to them directly in a minilibrary with ctypes makes life much easier from a mirage perspective.
I can reconsider this, it seemed more logical at first to add to an existing library.
The dependency can now go away as I've written my own recvmsg wrapper, so won't rely on my future work on extunix.
Replaced extunix with ocaml-tuntap, that pull-request I made is necessary though.