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From: Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr>
To: adrian@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: Any action on PR 10570 ? getting closer to 65K :-(
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On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 07:08:18PM +0800, adrian@freebsd.org wrote:
> There isn't a reference to either IFAFREE or ifa_refcnt outside of
> /usr/src/sys on my tree.

But changing its size changes the offsets of ifa_metric and ifa_rt
which are after it in the structure.

Also, netstat, route and ifconfig, at least, more or less depend
on offsets in that structures, though I don't know exactly how
(some of it has been rewritten to use ioctl() or the routing socket,
I believe).
-- 
Pierre Beyssac		pb@enst.fr


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