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To: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
cc: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey),
        FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD current users)
Subject: Re: What's happened to nfsd and mountd? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Jan 1997 23:02:49 +0800."
             <199701091502.XAA13553@spinner.DIALix.COM> 
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 17:05:53 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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In message <199701091502.XAA13553@spinner.DIALix.COM>, Peter Wemm writes:
>> 
>> A pointer to the problem, by the look of it:
>> 
>> === grog@freebie (/dev/ttypa) ~/src 3 -> gma
>> get_myaddress() returns 0
>> sin_family = 0 (AF_INET = 2)
>> sin_len = 3 (16)
>> sin_port = 0
>> sin_addr = 0.32.0.0
>> SIOCFIGCONF used 1008 bytes of a buffer 1024 long
>
>YIKES!  SIOCGIFCONF might be screwing up by the look of it.  Either that 
>or you
>have records being returned that are not sizeof(ifreq) in length and the 
>code that is supposed to track these isn't working.  There's 16 spare 
>bytes coming from somewhere..

I belive SIOGIFCONF will only return an integral number of records,
and therefore will only seldom hit the buffer size exactly...

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