Problems with getifaddrs

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Thu Jul 29 14:43:00 GMT 2021


On 7/26/2021 7:04 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> There's actually no IP address assigned to TAP55, which could be reported as 0/0.

Follow-up for the sake of the archives: The question I raised is whether 
getifaddrs *should* report an IP address of 0/0 in this case.  After checking 
what happens on Linux, Corinna agreed that it should not do this, and we've now 
changed it:

https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commit;h=b88d686a68d7bf2ff22d857a28d37fe4fdbafdf2

Ken


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