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From: Nicholas Wilson <nicholas.wilson@realvnc.com>
Subject: Re: kern/152036: [libc] getifaddrs(3) returns truncated sockaddrs
 for netmasks
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The following reply was made to PR kern/152036; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nicholas Wilson <nicholas.wilson@realvnc.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, kbyanc@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: kern/152036: [libc] getifaddrs(3) returns truncated sockaddrs
 for netmasks
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 12:19:08 +0000

 Note that although this is a little surprising initially, it could well 
 be intentional. For comparison, SIOCGIFNETMASK has the same behaviour on 
 other platforms that have sa_len, including Darwin and AIX, so FreeBSD's 
 behaviour is in line with other implementations. Changing the behaviour 
 of the ioctl might break someone's code.
 
 Nicholas Wilson