Re: question about mbuf intialization

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

On Sep 18, 2013, at 8:33 AM, Beverly Schwartz <bschwart%bbn.com@localhost> 
wrote:

> Any reason why we can't add
>       m->m_len = 0;
> to m_get, and
>       m->m_pkthdr.len = 0;
> to m_gethdr?

Why not m->m_len = MLEN or MHLEN and m->m_pkthdr.len = MHLEN?

That way you know how much space is left.


But in reality, it's expected the user knows that the length
fields and/or m_data need to be adjusted.