2005-04-02 Andrew J. Schorr <ajschorr@alumni.princeton.edu>
* if.c: (if_nametoindex) The man page is rather vague, but it seems
like the argument to if_nametoindex has an implicit maximum length
of IFNAMSIZ characters.
diff --git a/lib/ChangeLog b/lib/ChangeLog
index 35910a6..f55578e 100644
--- a/lib/ChangeLog
+++ b/lib/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
2005-04-02 Andrew J. Schorr <ajschorr@alumni.princeton.edu>
+ * if.c: (if_nametoindex) The man page is rather vague, but it seems
+ like the argument to if_nametoindex has an implicit maximum length
+ of IFNAMSIZ characters.
+
+2005-04-02 Andrew J. Schorr <ajschorr@alumni.princeton.edu>
+
* if.h: (if_lookup_by_name_len, if_get_by_name_len) New functions.
* if.c: (if_lookup_by_name_len, if_get_by_name_len) New functions.
(if_get_by_name) Tighten up code.
diff --git a/lib/if.c b/lib/if.c
index 212b236..a32cee0 100644
--- a/lib/if.c
+++ b/lib/if.c
@@ -768,7 +768,8 @@
{
struct interface *ifp;
- return ((ifp = if_lookup_by_name(name)) != NULL) ? ifp->ifindex : 0;
+ return ((ifp = if_lookup_by_name_len(name, strnlen(name, IFNAMSIZ))) != NULL)
+ ? ifp->ifindex : 0;
}
#endif