Re: [pfinet] no per-interface byte / packet counter RPC; please add SIOCGIFSTATS or equivalent

Hello,

Borja Tarraso, le sam. 30 mai 2026 22:53:54 +0300, a ecrit:
> On Debian GNU/Hurd 0.9 (pfinet as shipped in the hurd source package,
> hurd 1:0.9.git20230520-7), there is no RPC, no ioctl, and no procfs
> file that returns per-interface byte / packet counters.

Contribution welcome!

>   1. /usr/include/x86_64-gnu/bits/ioctls.h defines SIOC* constants
>      No SIOCGIFSTATS, no SIOCGIFMIB, no SIOCGIFDATA, no
>      SIOCGIFCOUNTERS macro anywhere under /usr/include.

I don't really see these macros being widely used?
Better implement something that is a largely-known interface, for
instance a common BSD interface.

(the Linux way, /proc, won't be helpful to us since that only defers the
question to the pfinet interface question anyway)

Samuel