Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:00:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/39896: netmask 0xffffff00 no longer works in /etc/exports Message-ID: <200206271800.g5RI09KA088505@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/39896; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> To: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jin Guojun[DSD]" <j_guojun@lbl.gov> Subject: Re: bin/39896: netmask 0xffffff00 no longer works in /etc/exports Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:59:01 +0100 In message <200206271730.g5RHU3PL084959@freefall.freebsd.org>, "Crist J. Clark" writes: > Sorry. Wrong cut-n-paste. I did use 0xffffff00 and it seemed to work > fine. When did you notice a change? src/sbin/mountd/mountd.c hasn't > changed since 4.4-RELEASE. I can't see anything that deals with > reading the netmask that has changed since 1998. The mask is actually > read with the inet_network(3) function, and I see no significant > changes in that for several years either. I'm not sure how this could have ever worked correctly, since inet_network(3) does not support hex addresses of this form. There are also no examples of it on the mountd man page. It is probably a bug that inet_network() is not a bit more picky about what it does accept though. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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