Subject: Re: m_copyback patch.
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Wolfgang Solfrank <ws@tools.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/12/1998 19:29:39
> > The problem is that you cannot be sure that the mbuf does have MLEN/MHLEN
> > at the address pointer to by mh_data (and thus returned by the mtod macro).
> > The mh_data pointer might have been incremented beyond its initial value.
> > Hell, it even might have been setup with an offset to allow later insertion
> > of a header in front of the data placed into it initially.
>
> Won't M_TRAILINGSPACE() give this to you?
Yes, looks so. I was only speaking from memory :-/.
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