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24.3; Implement (network-interface-list) on Windows

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Message #14 received at 15610 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 15610 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, lubos.pintes <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#15610: 24.3; Implement (network-interface-list) on Windows
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 23:41:35 -0400

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 20:20:57 +0300
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
>> Cc: 15610 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> The Cygwin library code for this is in net.cc.  Volunteers are welcome
>> to lift it from there into some w32*.c file inside Emacs.
>
> Of course, the necessary paperwork needs to be done, as the Cygwin
> code is copyrighted by RH.

Red Hat has a general assignment for all contributions to FSF projects,
so you'd "just" need to convince them to contribute this to Emacs.
(But I imagine it's less hassle to reimplement it.)

AFAIK (which is not very far), the "ipconfig" utility on MS Windows
returns the relevant network info, so anyone who actually needs this
info could just call that from Emacs and parse the result.

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