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Question for Corinna (was Re: Novice Question)


On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:09:12PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>Andy wrote:
>> /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.6.0-10/src/xorg-server-1.6.0/
>> os/access.c
>> (gdb) p *ifr
>> $1 = {ifa_next = 0x1447798, ifa_name = 0x14474c4
>> "{B8B51884-C69A-4592-B65D-89ABB3DCF18D}", ifa_flags = 69635,
>>   ifa_addr = 0x14474f0, ifa_netmask = 0x14475f0, ifa_dstaddr = 0x0, ifa_data
>> = 0x0}
>
>:-)
>
>It seems that the (new for Cygwin 1.7) getifaddr() function can return 
>interfaces with IFF_BROADCAST & IFF_UP set, but no broadcast address, which 
>the X server assumes never happens

I was going to say that this sounds wrong but I see interfaces on my
linux box which have no broadcast addresses but still have IFF_BROADCAST
set.

Corinna, what do you think?

cgf

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