On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 10:51:17PM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
>
> This is a FreeBSD kernel bug. There's no excuse for the kernel to write
> past ifc_len. If the kernel is fixed, the code will dynamically find the
> correct buffer length, as it does on other systems.
>
Heya, stop right there.
I am in no way declaring there is a bug on the kernel.
I was just supposing.
To the best of my knowledge: there was not, there is not such a bug
in the FreeBSD kernel. :)
That was just a fair assumption in the name of 'better safe than
sorry'.
Regards,
Mario Ferreira
ps: Gotta study ioctl, that one still evades me.
pss: thanks for both the prompt response and politeness.