On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 09:15:01PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > I'm trying to implement the SIOCADDRT ioctl for the Hurd. I've > encountered a problem in the Hurd/glibc while doing this. > > The format of an ioctl request "bits/ioctls.h" is defined. In this > request there are only 5 bits defined to store the size of a > parameter. SIOCADDRT uses "struct rtentry", a structure with the size > of 84 bytes.
Right, that is only of limited usefulness. > So without any serious changes the ioctl cannot be implemented. Can > someone please give me some hints what to do? I can only think of > extending pfinet.defs with a pfinet_addroute instead of adding an > ioctl, but this does not solve the ioctl problem :(. Another option is > changing the size of the request from 32 bits to 64 bits, but this > will break binary compatibility for other ioctls. See what I did for the SIOCGIFCONF. You need to excempt it from the normal handling and write a wrapper function for it. Thanks, Marcus _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
