Re: kern/50019: bmon(1) shows tap(4) interface name with garbage at the end

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/50019; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: Dominik Bialy <dmb%yenn.ulegend.net@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/50019: bmon(1) shows tap(4) interface name with garbage at the end
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 13:29:00 +0200

 On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 12:39:49PM +0200, Dominik Bialy wrote:
 > It might be that this is a bug in bmon, although it shows up only
 > on tap(4) interfaces in NetBSD.
 
 Does 
 
 	ifconfit -a
 
 show the name properly? What API is bmon using to query the names?
 
 You are talking about this one?
 
 	https://github.com/tgraf/bmon/
 
 > If you are sure I made a mistake and it's a bug in that software,
 > feel free to close the PR.
 
 No idea yet, but a non-terminated string where the spec requires a null
 terminated one would likely cause a lot more fallout, so I'd be
 slightly suprised.
 
 (side note: should there be a pkgsrc for it?)
 
 Martin