Re: [Help-smalltalk] [PATCH 2/2] netlink: Introduce a Linux/Netlink extension for GNU Smalltalk

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 25/03/2014 18:58, Holger Hans Peter Freyther ha scritto:
> +Sockets.IPAddress extend [
> +    determineSourceAddress  [
> +        | sourceAddr res |
> +        <category: '*Netlink'>
> +        "Assuming that self is the destination address determine the
> +        source address that will be used."
> +        sourceAddr := ByteArray new: 4.
> +        res := Netlink fromDestIPv4: address toLocal: sourceAddr.
> +        res = 0
> +            ifFalse: [^self error: 'Failed to determine source address'].
> +        ^self class fromBytes: sourceAddr.
> +    ]
> +
> +    fromDest: destAddress toLocal: localAddress [
> +        <category: '*Netlink'>
> +        "Given a destination IPv4 Address this function will
> +        determine the local source address that would be used.
> +        The addresses need to be a ByteArray with four entries."
> +        <cCall: 'nl_route_source_ipv4' returning: #int args: #(#byteArray 
> #cObject)>
> +    ]
> +

Is the call-out a remnant of older code?

Paolo