Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 17:29:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: subtle SIOCGIFCONF bug Message-ID: <199906050029.RAA85352@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199906050023.UAA12466@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Jun 4, 99 08:23:48 pm"
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Garrett Wollman writes: > > Should the kernel insure that ifr->ifr_addr.sa_len is always at > > least sizeof(ifr->ifr_addr), or should the user programs adjust > > their pointer increment algorithm? At first I assumed the latter > > answer (patches below) but now am not so sure. > > The user programs should not use SIOCGIFCONF. I was hoping for a little more information than that. OK, imagine a world where you had no choice. THEN what would the answer be? In other words, I'd like to fix the problem but I don't have time to rewrite arp, natd, route, etc. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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