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Bug 307422 - patch to fix parsing of SIOCGIFCONF on amd64
patch to fix parsing of SIOCGIFCONF on amd64
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-netstatus
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
2.12.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Mark McLoughlin
Mark McLoughlin
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-06-12 21:06 UTC by Olivier Crête
Modified: 2011-07-10 02:43 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16


Attachments
parsing patch (410 bytes, patch)
2005-06-12 21:06 UTC, Olivier Crête
none Details | Review

Description Olivier Crête 2005-06-12 21:06:02 UTC
Distribution/Version: Gentoo/amd64

The current parsing of the result of SIOCGIFCONF jumps by a strange offset..
This patch works on linux 2.6.11 on both x86 and amd64
Comment 1 Olivier Crête 2005-06-12 21:06:40 UTC
Created attachment 47670 [details] [review]
parsing patch
Comment 2 Mark McLoughlin 2005-06-13 07:09:31 UTC
Not sure about this; I recall this isn't entirely trivial because the details
vary between platforms.

Really need to go back and look at what Steven's book has to about this
Comment 3 Daniel Holbach 2005-10-13 13:13:42 UTC
I'm not quite sure, but could http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15007
possibly related to this?
Comment 4 Daniel Holbach 2006-02-20 14:08:38 UTC
Now: https://launchpad.net/products/gnome-netstatus/+bug/21234
Comment 5 Olivier Crête 2006-04-14 23:25:38 UTC
looks like the same bug
Comment 6 Sebastien Bacher 2006-08-29 14:45:19 UTC
could a maintainer comment on the patch?
Comment 7 Daniel Holbach 2006-10-23 09:09:06 UTC
From: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-netstatus/+bug/21234/comments/10

"the patch that posted upstream
http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307422
fixes this issue."
Comment 8 Sebastien Bacher 2006-10-23 10:33:08 UTC
still happening with GNOME 2.16, the patch seems to work fine
Comment 9 Arthur Peters 2007-01-30 16:11:49 UTC
This bug is rather severe for inexperienced 64bit users. And now that modern Intels are 64bit too, many more people will fall into this category. 

Is there anything I could do to help this patch go through? 

Does it need testing? Debugging?
Comment 10 Olivier Crête 2007-01-31 00:44:17 UTC
I guess gnome-netstatus is now unmaintained.
Comment 11 Joachim Frieben 2008-02-17 07:42:05 UTC
Note that there is the similar bug 453070 which suggest a somewhat different patch, namely http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453070#c3
I have implemented the latter on my x86_64 Fedora box ["rawhide"], and it works perfectly.
Comment 12 Akhil Laddha 2011-07-10 02:43:09 UTC
gnome-netstatus development has been stalled [1]. Maintainers don't have
future development plan so i am closing the bugs as WONTFIX.

[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-June/msg00073.html