On 10/11/17 6:29 AM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> Le 10/10/2017 à 16:50, David Ahern a écrit :
>> On 10/10/17 6:41 AM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
>>> IFLA_IFALIAS is defined as NLA_STRING. It means that the minimal length of
>>> the attribute is 1 ("\0"). However, to remove an alias, the attribute
>>> leng
Le 10/10/2017 à 16:50, David Ahern a écrit :
> On 10/10/17 6:41 AM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
>> IFLA_IFALIAS is defined as NLA_STRING. It means that the minimal length of
>> the attribute is 1 ("\0"). However, to remove an alias, the attribute
>> length must be 0 (see dev_set_alias()).
>>
>> Let's de
On 10/10/17 6:41 AM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> IFLA_IFALIAS is defined as NLA_STRING. It means that the minimal length of
> the attribute is 1 ("\0"). However, to remove an alias, the attribute
> length must be 0 (see dev_set_alias()).
>
> Let's define the type to NLA_BINARY, so that the alias can
IFLA_IFALIAS is defined as NLA_STRING. It means that the minimal length of
the attribute is 1 ("\0"). However, to remove an alias, the attribute
length must be 0 (see dev_set_alias()).
Let's define the type to NLA_BINARY, so that the alias can be removed.
Example:
$ ip l s dummy0 alias foo
$ ip l
