Re: kern/51325: "netstat -ia" causes infinite loop

[Ryota Ozaki <ozaki-r%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/51325; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ryota Ozaki <ozaki-r%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
Cc: "gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost" <gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>, kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, 
	"gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost" <gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost>, "netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost" <netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: kern/51325: "netstat -ia" causes infinite loop
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 11:06:02 +0900

 On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 6:00 PM, matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> wrote:
 > the right way to fix this would be to convert that part
 > of netstat to use sysctl on live kernels.
 
 christos@ has done it? :)
 
 >  then you can
 > change the in-kernel version more sanely without breaking
 > apps.  sure, a deaad kernel netstat user will have to
 > match kernel/user versions but that's always the case.
 
 If it's allowed, I want to do so because in this case we
 need to do some tricky workaround to make ifaddr lists
 workable for psz/psref maybe introducing some overhead.
 
   ozaki-r
 
 >
 > netstat is one of the biggest kvm users left, so it would
 > be a great place to start :-)
 >
 >
 > .mrg.