site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 Dear Amanda, We're not comparing seniority, last I checked (though several of us go much farther back than that). You asked a question, you got an answer, and you didn't like the answer. Puffing up your ego and whining about the platform you're asking for help about is not going to help. So, to get back to your original question: SystemConfiguration is a userland API, not a kernel API, and is not available to kernel extensions. Nor does the Darwin kernel have a concept of a "primary" interface (something it shares with most UNIX and UNIX-like kernels). What are you trying to implement? Perhaps with a description of your goal, some of us could make some suggestions about how you can accomplish what you need. --Amanda Shalom, John B. Brown. [jbb@vcn.com] 358 High Street, Buffalo, Wyoming 82834 "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes" Mahatma Gandhi "If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied." Rudyard Kipling "A man who does not know the truth is just an idiot but a man who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a crook." Bertolt Brecht "I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... Somehow you think I asked a question about SystemConfiguration; I did no such thing. I suggested the include call would not work as written. I was wrong in fact, if not in principle. On 5/11/10 5:09 PM, Amanda Walker wrote: On May 11, 2010, at 5:31 PM, John B Brown wrote: Thank you. My last instruction in C was on a VAX, and your discourse is most illuminating. The other systems were AT&T 3B1 and 3B2 surplus that I took care of at school. That should date me pretty well. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com