Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 20:32:53 +0300 From: "Mike E. Matsnev" <mike@po.cs.msu.su> To: Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com> Cc: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, markster@marko.net Subject: Re: Size of struct ifreq/returned buffer of SIOCGIFCONF Message-ID: <20010109203253.A10537@haali.cs.msu.ru> In-Reply-To: <3A5B148A.5F139188@cequrux.com>; from gram@cequrux.com on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:39:22PM %2B0200 References: <3A5AE854.F769B86C@cequrux.com> <20010109142043.B52761@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <3A5B148A.5F139188@cequrux.com>
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:39:22PM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote: > David Malone wrote: > > > > If you read the paragraph below that code, it notes that the ifreq > > structures are of variable length. The spacing depends on the size > > of the returned info. > > That's true. In which case the cheops code is wrong, as it iterates > through the list by incrementing a pointer to a struct ifreq. I'll try > fix that and get Mark to test under Linux and hopefully get a portable > solution. You can get the portable code from BIND, where it looks at the interface list. /Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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