kern/152036: [libc] getifaddrs(3) returns truncated sockaddrs for netmasks

Sergey Kandaurov pluknet at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 14:00:25 UTC 2011


The following reply was made to PR kern/152036; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet at gmail.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, kbyanc at gmail.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/152036: [libc] getifaddrs(3) returns truncated sockaddrs for netmasks
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:59:47 +0400

 [Some thoughts and testing...]
 This is rather a kernel bug, i.e. this is not a getifaddrs() bug.
 This is confirmed by (undocumented) ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK.
 I found that the bug is manifested for ip4, and not for lladdr, ipv6.


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