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From: Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: cvs commit: src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.c
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bde         1998/07/06 12:54:41 PDT

  Modified files:
    sbin/ifconfig        ifconfig.c 
  Log:
  ioctl() request args are unsigned longs, so don't attempt to store
  them as ints.  Among other bugs, doing so at best caused benign
  overflow followed by fatal sign extension on machines with 32-bit
  ints and 64-bit longs.
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.37      +3 -3      src/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.c