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[Bug network/21812] getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
- From: "dalvarez at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:29:22 +0000
- Subject: [Bug network/21812] getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
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- References: <bug-21812-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21812
--- Comment #2 from Daniel Alvarez <dalvarez at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #1)
> This causes some application stability, but cannot be triggered deliberately
> to crash applications, right?
I don't see an easy way to do it. Probably if you keep adding/removing
interfaces continuously, the odds that this happens increase plus if you do
this you would make getifaddrs() to retry over and over so it won't never
return to the caller.
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