From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
Date: 2013-03-27T10:40:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:53754] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #8159] Build failure introduced by Rinda changes

2013/3/26 Tanaka Akira <akr@fsij.org>:
>>
>> Sure, but what is the type of its return value?
>> Extended Addrinfo or a new object like Ifaddr?
>
> I think it should have new class.
>
> Addrinfo has bunch of methods for a struct sockaddr.
> But struct ifaddrs has multiple pointers to struct sockaddr.
> It is difficult to deal with them fairly.

One more point for new class:

Addrinfo is possible to marshal now but
struct ifaddrs is impossible to marshal
because we don't know about internal of ifa_data.
-- 
Tanaka Akira