Solaris winsock support

[Robert Lunnon]

Trying Eudora 4.3 on Solaris solicits this error


err:winsock:WsControl Unable to open /proc filesystem to determine number of 
network interfaces!

Looking about in the code WsControl grubs about in the /proc filesystem to 
get the names of, and count the number of network interfaces. Since /Proc 
only hosts processes on Solaris this constitutes a linux dependancy we don't 
need. Studying the ifconfig source gives another possibility instead which 
look like it may be more portable using ioctl SIOCGIFCONF on an arbitrary IP 
socket

The return from this call is a structure containing the length of the reply 
buffer, which seems to contains an array of ifreq structures (one for each 
interface) which contains among other things the name of the interface. By 
dividing the size of the buffer by the size of the returned objects we know 
how many interfaces there are...

Questions
Anyone know if this is Is this workable ?
Is this workable on linux, (I ask because I don't have linux and don't know 
linux ioctl implementation details)?