Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:34:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: bryan collins <bryan@coombs.anu.edu.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/sbin/arp: actual retrieval of routing table Message-ID: <199810151534.LAA16665@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810150930550.11086-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> References: <199810150116.SAA03564@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810150930550.11086-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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<<On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:37:33 +0200 (CEST), Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> said: > Perhaps the programs which use this double sysctl(3) calls should allocate > somewhat bigger buffer than that calculated on basis of previous call, > anticipating for unexpected change in data size... Actually, the size-estimate routines often intentionally overestimate for precisely this reason. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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