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From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
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On Friday 26 December 2003 10:26 am, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, I misunderstood your change and didn't look at the diff.

	Sam