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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 11:12:14 +0300 (MSK)
From: Alexander Monakov <amonakov@...ras.ru>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix type for ifc_ifcu.ifcu_buf field of struct
 ifconf

On Thu, 15 Sep 2016, Daniel Sabogal wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Alexander Monakov <amonakov@...ras.ru> wrote:
> > Declaration of 'ifru_data' in that header has the same issue.
> 
> I originally considered changing this one but had left it out since
> linux disagree on the type (void *).

Ah. From looking at pre-git Linux history, it appears that it had
'char *', but then it was changed to 'void *' in June 2004 by commit
'[PATCH] sparse: ->ifr_data annotation' by Al Viro, causing a divergence
with the Glibc interface.

FreeBSD also has 'char *' (caddr_t) there, and netdevice(7) manpage documents
that the Linux interface has 'char *' as well. Thus, the kernel uapi header is
the odd one out.

Please wait for further feedback from Rich.

Thanks.
Alexander

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