On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 01:52:57PM -0400, David Huggins-Daines wrote:
> Looks like standard bad old coding practice. Various people have done
> a pretty thorough 64-bit-cleanliness audit on NetKit, so that stuff
> should all be gone, we hope.
I found that one relatively recently, although the patch itself is
fairly old so it might just be that the patches haven't made their way
into our packages.
> But I don't see the connection to enumerating network interfaces -
> correct me if I'm wrong but this just looks like it will result in a
> broken select(2) call in some cases...
The user-level symptoms are that the program either ends up thinking
that there aren't any network interfaces or can't reconcile /proc with
what it can probe for. Zebra did this last time I checked, and nmap
from frozen certainly does it - it barfs because it doesn't think that
the network interfaces really exist.
Like I say, I'm not sure I haven't done something silly in the kernel
configuration or something.
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