This commit introduces my concept of a network namespace aware
getifaddrs(), i.e. netns_getifaddrs(). This presupposes a kernel that
carries my IF{L}A_TARGET_NETNSID patches:
/* If you don't know what this is for don't touch it. */
void *ifa_data;
};
which is a superset of struct ifaddrs. It contains additional
information such as the mtu, ifindex of the interface and the prefix
length of the address.
Note that the field ordering is different. So don't get any ideas of
using memcpy() to copy from an old struct ifaddrs into a struct
netns_ifaddrs.
int netns_getifaddrs(struct netns_ifaddrs **ifap, __s32 netns_id, bool *netnsid_aware)
takes a network namespace identifier as argument which identifies the
target network namespace.
If successfull, i.e. netns_getifaddrs() returns 0, callers should check
the bool *netnsid_aware return argument. If it is true then
RTM_GET{ADDR,LINK} requests are fully netnsid aware. If it is false then
they are not and the information returned in struct netns_ifaddrs does
*not* contain correct information about the target network namespace
identified by netnsid.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>