Issue with gdmchooser (2.20.6)

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Sat Jun 28 18:19:34 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 13:04 +0800, Volker Stolz wrote:
> Hi guys, I was playing with XDMCP and the gdmchooser drops the  
> following in syslog when looking for local interfaces to broadcast on:
> 
> Jun 23 12:32:13 pc139 gdmchooser[37872]: CRITICAL: Could not get  
> SIOCGIFFLAGS for ^\b
> Jun 23 12:32:13 pc139 gdmchooser[37872]: CRITICAL: Could not get  
> SIOCGIFFLAGS for 8^R^C
> 
> It looks like there's something going wrong (I'm on 7.0-R with a  
> bge0,plip0,lo0), and we don't have the SIOCGIFNUM ioctl anyway. Is  
> someone interested in getting something like the following patch into  
> the port and/or upstream? [Note that I usually don't program in C ;)]

This patch seems pretty intrusive.  However, I appreciate the report,
and I'll look at creating something more portable.

Joe

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