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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 15:01:47 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] properly handle point-to-point interfaces in
getifaddrs()
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 09:43:10PM +0100, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote:
> With point-to-point interfaces, the IFA_ADDRESS netlink attribute contains
> the peer address while an extra attribute IFA_LOCAL carries the actual local
> interface address.
>
> Both the glibc and uclibc implementations of getifaddrs() handle this case
> by moving the ifa_addr contents to the broadcast/remote address union and
> overwriting ifa_addr upon receipt of an IFA_LOCAL attribute.
>
> This patch adds the same special treatment logic of IFA_LOCAL to musl's
> implementation of getifaddrs() in order to align its behaviour with that
> of uclibc and musl.
^^^^ glibc
Committed, fixing this and line folding in the commit message;
otherwise, unchanged. Thanks!
Rich
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