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From: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: passt-dev@passt.top
Subject: Re: [PATCH] util, tcp: Add helper to display socket addresses
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 09:49:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240516094947.07eaba40@elisabeth> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZkWtoNC5WafjUOyC@zatzit>

On Thu, 16 May 2024 16:54:24 +1000
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 03:25:56PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > When reporting errors, we sometimes want to show a relevant socket address.
> > Doing so by extracting the various relevant fields can be pretty awkward,
> > so introduce a sockaddr_ntop() helper to make it simpler.  For now we just
> > have one user in tcp.c, but I have further upcoming patches which can make
> > use of it.  
> 
> Realised I had an off-by-one error in my calculation of the max buffer
> size for this.  Fixed version coming.

While at it, I was also wondering: would it be reasonably feasible,
without killing readability, to get inet_ntop() to write directly to
the buffer? I haven't tried to do it though.

-- 
Stefano


      reply	other threads:[~2024-05-16  7:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-16  5:25 [PATCH] util, tcp: Add helper to display socket addresses David Gibson
2024-05-16  6:54 ` David Gibson
2024-05-16  7:49   ` Stefano Brivio [this message]

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