Subject: Re: ifconfig breakage
To: enami tsugutomo <enami@sm.sony.co.jp>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 03/06/2000 21:03:44
On 07 Mar 2000 14:01:38 +0900 
 enami tsugutomo <enami@sm.sony.co.jp> wrote:

 > 	Many routine uses global variable `ifr' but sa_family in it is
 > 	just initialized at very first.  So, for example setting flags
 > 	overwrite it (since sockaddr and flags are overlaps in struct
 > 	ifreq) and no one reset it.
 > 
 > Not so simple?

Someday our prince will come and rewrite ifconfig(8) from scratch...

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>