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

[Dominik Bialy <dmb%yenn.ulegend.net@localhost>]

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

From: Dominik Bialy <dmb%yenn.ulegend.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
	netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, dmb%yenn.ulegend.net@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/50019: bmon(1) shows tap(4) interface name with garbage at
 the end
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 13:58:39 +0200

 On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 11:30:01AM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
 > 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?
 >  
 Yes, ifconfig -a shows `tap0' properly.
 
 It uses sysctl interface.
 
 In `sysctl -a' `tap0' looks OK, also.  So it seems you were right :)
 
 >  You are talking about this one?
 >  
 >  	https://github.com/tgraf/bmon/
 >  
 Maybe... (sorry, only w3m at hand, and didn't look deeply into the github
 page.)  Although in pkgsrc bmon is at version 2.0.1.  This looks like
 something newer.
 
 >  > 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?)
 >  
 It is in pkgsrc net/bmon, maybe we just need an update.
 
 	Dominik
 
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