Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 15:39:22 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, markster@marko.net Subject: Re: Size of struct ifreq/returned buffer of SIOCGIFCONF Message-ID: <3A5B148A.5F139188@cequrux.com> References: <3A5AE854.F769B86C@cequrux.com> <20010109142043.B52761@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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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. Thanks Dave. regards gram -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Director, Research and Development WWW: http://www.cequrux.com CEQURUX Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065 Firewalls/VPN Specialists Fax: +27(21)424-3656 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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