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Date:      Mon, 8 Jul 1996 11:30:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   Re: misc/1376: if_tun.c does not init obytes and ibytes 
Message-ID:  <199607081830.LAA27808@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR misc/1376; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: risner@stdio.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/1376: if_tun.c does not init obytes and ibytes 
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 19:25:56 +0100

 Charlie Root wrote in message ID
 <199607080540.FAA00653@generations.stdio.com>:
 > >Fix:
 
 > 117d116
 > < 		ifp->if_ibytes = 0;
 > 119d117
 > < 		ifp->if_obytes = 0;
 
 > I think this should be fine.
 
 No, the patch is reversed :-)
 
 The correct way is probably to either bzero/memset the structure array
 to be all 0's, or to ensure that the array gets dumped into the
 zero-initialised area of the kernel.
 
 No doubt Bruce has comments on the above :-)
 
 Gary
 --
 Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
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