Moving on from net-tools

Posted Jan 5, 2017 19:53 UTC (Thu) by samroberts (subscriber, #46749)
In reply to: Moving on from net-tools by mm7323
Parent article: Moving on from net-tools

> I've often thought that it takes a really good programmer to make a good API and libraries, and I'm afraid that over the years I've come to the conclusion that the Linux network guys are mainly really good at networking.

I would agree, the docs are incomplete, incomprehensible, or straight-up missing, and using assert for argument checking is not something good C libs have done for a long time.