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

[Guy Harris <gharris () sonic net>]

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?

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.

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