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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To: Nuno Miguel Fernandes Sucena Almeida <slug@alumni.deec.uc.pt>
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Subject: Re: getifaddrs usage (bug?)
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* Nuno Miguel Fernandes Sucena Almeida <slug@alumni.deec.uc.pt> [020216 20:29] wrote:
> Hello,
> 	i'm using getifaddrs to get the IP and HW address of an ethernet
> interface but it seems that the ifap->ifa_next pointer is never NULL so I
> end up with an infinite loop! If i uncomment the // printf's I get the
> HW address correctly but after that I get the IP address repeated ad
> eternum! Any ideas ?


>         current = ifap->ifa_next;

should be:
current = current->ifa_next;

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-Alfred

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