Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 20:33:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: bryan collins <bryan@coombs.anu.edu.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/sbin/arp: actual retrieval of routing table Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810152033060.27375-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199810151534.LAA16665@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<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. Ok, good to know this - but this didn't work in this case... Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- <abial@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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