RFR(S): 8252407: Build failure with gcc-8+ and asan

Kim Barrett kim.barrett at oracle.com
Mon Sep 7 02:36:33 UTC 2020


> On Sep 6, 2020, at 9:51 PM, Kim Barrett <kim.barrett at oracle.com> wrote:
> Oh, good grief!  This file contains 3 identical copies of getMTU and
> getFlags, one each for linux, AIX, and BSD.  And getIndex is kind of a
> mess.  If changing any of these for linux, probably similar changes
> ought to be applied to the other copies to keep things in sync.

Is there any reason the linux version of getIndex couldn’t be changed to use
if_nametoindex (like the AIX version)?  That would eliminate one of the cases
that is causing problems.




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