Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:02:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPFW showing extra lines Message-ID: <199808311802.OAA27036@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199808311654.SAA22726@semyam.dinoco.de> References: <199808311503.LAA26383@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199808311654.SAA22726@semyam.dinoco.de>
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<<On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:54:41 +0200, Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de> said: > I think the actual size of the returned value is the size of the result > we copied to user space. Otherwise the wording has to be revised (made > more precise) and ipfw fixed. Curious. I checked the original (Lite-1) implementation, and it appears to agree with you. I still think the semantics are bogus in this regard, but will bow to tradition. (SunOS says the same thing, and it probably inhgerited the behavior from 4.2. A check of the 4.3 source shows similar behavior to that present in Lite-1.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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