Re: SIOCGIFCONF under Linux on Itanium in 32 bit compatibility mode

[Shaun <delius () progsoc uts edu au>]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Guy Harris wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:38:05AM +1100, Shaun wrote:
> > This bites libpcap because when it attempts to read off the end of the
> > real end of the interfaces it finds an interface with an empty name and
> > fails to retrieve the flags for the interface, terminating the interface
> > finding procedure. The fix I commited to our internal licpcap is to
> > 'break' out of the loop if we find an interface with a null name, does
> > anyone object to this approach for the mainline?
>
> "Null" presumably meaning either an empty name?

Yep, an empty name (the name buffer is an array in the struct itself as
you know).

> That's unlikely to appear in a valid list, so that's probably OK.  There
> should probably be a big "XXX - Linux's support for IA-32 binaries is
> broken in the following fashion..." comment for it.

Ok, I'm attaching the patch to this email.

> (Presumably this bug has been reported to the appropriate kernel folks,
> right?)

Nope, and I'd rather not have to if you're not going to force me.

Cheers,
Shaun

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