Re: port-i386/39880: ioctl with SIOCGIFFLAGS fails on -current (in GNUstep gdomap)

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:50:34AM -0800, Ric wrote:
>> Here you can access the file:
>> 
>> http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/gnustep/libs/base/trunk/Tools/gdomap.c?rev=26992&view=log
>> 
>> there is only one place where it gets used.
>
> Please send the output from 'ifconfig -a' on your system.  Please ktrace
> the program, too, and send the kdump output.
>
> I have a hunch that the program relies on false SIOCGIFCONF semantics.

What is the correct way of using SIOCGIFCONF?
Or what are the common mistakes?

Can you elaborate?


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