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From: "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro@ipfw.ru>
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Subject: Re: kern/159099: [ioctl] ioctl SIOCGIFCONF reports interface names
 which are blank
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The following reply was made to PR kern/159099; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro@ipfw.ru>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, sreeramabs@netapp.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/159099: [ioctl] ioctl SIOCGIFCONF reports interface names
 which are blank
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:38:12 +0400

 Data returned by SIOCGIFCONF is correct. It just has to be read another
 way. General struct sockaddr was planned to be enough for holding
 AF_INET/AF_INET6 address. It is not enough large to hold AF_LINK address
 (sockaddr_dl), for example. There is also traditional 4.3BSD socket
 interface with sa_len field contained within struct sockaddr. *BSD, AIX,
  Darwin, QNX are using it. Linux, Solaris, Cygwin does not. This really
 leads to portability problems for many people.
 On all systems supporting sa_len real ifreq length is calculated using
 sa_len field.
 sa_len support should be checked before compilation (usually done by
 autoconf)
 
 Please see /usr/src/contrib/traceroute/ifaddrlist.c for example of doing
 this really portable way.