How to get local IPv6 addresses (LSB compliance) [closed]

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ioctl does not work with IPv6.

getifaddres - unsupported by LSB

netlink sockets - unsupported by LSB

Any ideas?

Answer 1

1) It may be after LSB version 4.1:

https://lsbbugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2143

2) Parsing the /proc/net tree.

3) Use the POSIX.1-2001 API getaddrinfo but support is rather limited compared with Win32 which explicitly details the operation to enumerate interfaces.