On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Daniel Baluta <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Siddu<[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I was running strace over  ifconfig command  and part of the output is
> shown
> > below . I notice something strange in the length of the buffer address of
> > the  read syscall . Can somebody throw some light on this ?
> >
> > open("/proc/net/if_inet6", O_RDONLY)    = 10
>
> inet6 , i think is the key to your question.


Yep , Sorry my mistake  dint observe closely :(

>
>
> > fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> > mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0)
> =
> > 0xb7ce8000
> > read(10, "fe80000000000000021676fffe79ceb2"..., 1024) = 108
> > write(1, "          inet6 addr: fe80::216:"..., 61          inet6 addr:
>




>
> > fe80::216:76ff:fe79:ceb2/64 Scope:Link
> > ) = 61
> > read(10, "", 1024)                      = 0
> > read(10, "", 1024)                      = 0
> > close(10)                               = 0
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > ~Sid~
> > http://sidsenclave.blogspot.com
> >
>



-- 
Regards,
~Sid~
http://sidsenclave.blogspot.com

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