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Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> wrote:
> On Friday 26 December 2003 10:09 am, Brian Feldman wrote:
> > green       2003/12/26 10:09:35 PST
> >
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/net              if.c
> >   Log:
> >   Don't truncate the interface name in ifunit().  It's now possible to
> > query "very long interface names", e.g.:
> >   ndis_atheros0: flags=8847<UP,BROADCAST,DEBUG,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
> > mtu 1500
> 
> I'm not sure this works out well as I believe user-level apps like netstat 
> assume interface names are short max-lengthed strings.  I've been using the 
> ndis stuff (great work btw) and was thinking instead that it would be nice to 
> customize the device by specifying the name at config time.
> 
> I think you need to discuss changes like this before committing them.

They are still short max-length strings.  ifunit() wasn't accounting for the 
"dev/" it was appending when it searches for a given interface, so it was 
limiting things to IFNAMSIZE - 4 accidentally.

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