Subject: Re: [PATCH] qemu tap support broken on current 3.99.17
To: Luciano Rodrigues Furtado <lrfurtado@yahoo.com.br>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/16/2006 22:30:52
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On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 05:27:17PM -0300, Luciano Rodrigues Furtado wrote:
> Quentin Garnier wrote:
> >On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 09:43:55PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> >>On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, Luciano R. Furtado wrote:
> >>>qemu when started with -net tap is crashing on tap_open on=20
> >>>NetBSD-current, I had to apply the following patch to get it to work
> >>What will this do on NetBSD 2.x and 3.0?
> >
> >It's a workaround, not a fix.
> >
> should I send-pr so somebody can provide a final solution later on?

What qemu is this?  The one we have in pkgsrc doesn't have support for
our clonable tap(4), and hopefully no NetBSD developer is responsible
for code that doesn't check the return value of an ioctl() call.

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.

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