Subject: kern/21513: "man bpf" wrong
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <Ross.Patterson@CatchFS.Com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/09/2003 06:50:36
>Number: 21513
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: BPF man page says SIOCGIFADDR supported, not true.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: kern-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri May 09 19:04:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Ross Patterson
>Release: NetBSD 1.6
>Organization:
CatchFIRE Systems, Inc.
>Environment:
System: NetBSD devo.rap.catchfs.com 1.6 NetBSD 1.6 (GENERIC) #0: Sun Sep 8 19:43:40 UTC 2002 autobuild@tgm.daemon.org:/autobuild/i386/OBJ/autobuild/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
The man page for bpf(4) says BPF supports the SIOCGIFADDR icotl, but
the code in src/sys/net/bpf.c doesn't do so. It looks like that code
was deliberately omitted in 1997 (rev 1.36).
>How-To-Repeat:
"man bpf"
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: