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Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 02:43:57 +0200
From: Abdoulaye Walsimou GAYE <awg@...toolkit.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] <netinet/ether.h>: Add GNU extensions ether_ntoa_r()
 and ether_aton_r()

On 10/21/2012 01:53 AM, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 10:15:45PM +0200, Abdoulaye Walsimou Gaye wrote:
>> +struct ether_addr *ether_aton_r(const char *s, struct ether_addr *n)
>> +{
>> +	unsigned int i[6];
>> +	int sz;
>> +
>> +	assert(s != NULL);
>> +	assert(n != NULL);
>> +
>> +	sz = sscanf(s, " %x:%x:%x:%x:%x:%x ",
>> +			&i[0], &i[1], &i[2], &i[3], &i[4], &i[5]);
>> +
>> +	if (sz == 6) {
>> +		n->ether_addr_octet[0] = (unsigned char)i[0];
>> +		n->ether_addr_octet[1] = (unsigned char)i[1];
>> +		n->ether_addr_octet[2] = (unsigned char)i[2];
>> +		n->ether_addr_octet[3] = (unsigned char)i[3];
>> +		n->ether_addr_octet[4] = (unsigned char)i[4];
>> +		n->ether_addr_octet[5] = (unsigned char)i[5];
>> +		return n;
> I think this code could be greatly simplified using %hhx as the format
> instead of %x, but either way it's lacking any error checking and
> accepts lots of inputs that probably should not be accepted. Is this
> an issue?
>
> Rich
>
>

As I said, the code is almost copied "AS IS" from NetBSD to have <netinet/ether.h> features,
feel free to amend it.

cheers,
AWG

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