On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 04:08:19PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > > The ifdown() routine in src/ifdown.c (called by halt or reboot when > > passed -i flag) produces weird output on GNU/kFreeBSD (prints > > uninitialised strings). > > Looking at the code, I fail to understand why this give such result. > Can you explain more? > > I'm not to happy about just commenting out the code, as it would make > init behanve differently (and not according to the documentation) on > non-linux platforms. > > Is the ioctl-call broken on freebsd? Is it the wrong one? What > exactly is the problem?
Ok, you win :). It seems on kFreeBSD, some interfaces are "phantom" ones. They exist, and are detected by the numif assignment in ifdown.c, but their ifr_name component only contains trash (on my system, there are 2 normal interfaces, and 8 "phantom" ones). Attempting to shut them down will fail with ENXIO (interpreted in this context as "no such device"). I'm not sure how to distinguish them (I've put the kfreebsd-gnu list on CC). -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
