Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 08:45:59 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Volker Stolz <stolz@hyperion.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha/34232: rpc.statd throws alignment errors Message-ID: <15441.24983.522465.946392@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020125112723.U75106@cicely8.cicely.de> References: <20020124221130.T75106@cicely8.cicely.de> <20020125052258.534753BAB@overcee.wemm.org> <20020125112723.U75106@cicely8.cicely.de>
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Bernd Walter writes: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:22:58PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > > Bernd Walter wrote: > > > > That was also the theory on the ifconfig alignment errors. > > > > > > The ifconfig thing is simply a programming error when transfering > > > structures over sysctl. > > > I already stated to provide a fix over the weekend. > > > If I'm guessing right that get_myaddress() also reads the interface > > > list this might have the same reason. > > > > Can you be a little more specific? Is the kernel generating an unaligned > > sysctl data buffer? > > Yes - it concatenates structs where at least one of them is not > n*8 bytes long son the next one get missaligned. Exactly. > > I've also noticed that it only seems to happen for lo0. > > It's gif0 and gif3 in my case. It seems to be every other interface in the list.. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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