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Re: RFC: getifaddrs returns -1 with errno == 0, fix
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:03:54 -0200
- Subject: Re: RFC: getifaddrs returns -1 with errno == 0, fix
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On Sep 17, 2013, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> wrote:
>> It turned out that getifaddrs() was indeed returning -1 without setting
>> errno, because the buffer allocated by __netlink_request wasn't large
>> enough to hold the response. The received message was marked as
>> truncated, and we bailed out(_fail) without setting any errors.
>> Rather than just fail, I experimented with growing the buffer and
>> retrying. I found out I had to consume the rest of the response to the
>> earlier request first, so I grew the buffer by just the right amount,
>> and that worked fine.
> Ping?
Ping?
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-09/msg00521.html
> for ChangeLog
> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ifaddrs.c (__netlink_request): Grow
> buffer and retry when message is fragmented.
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