Re: [Vtun-devel] IOCTL problems on linux-2.4.14

[Guus S. <gu...@sl...>]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:41:07AM +0200, Helge Jensen wrote:

> Is it correct, that basically the problem is, that the vtun module (or=20
> something) has it's own code for trying to guess a device "sub-number"=20
> (ex: tun0), but it call's dev_alloc_name, which requires a "%d" in the=20
> name to allocate it?

The tun module does not try anything, it blindly copies the name from
the struct ifreq you give it to dev_alloc(), which in turn passes it to
dev_alloc_name(). Older kernels didn't really check for the presence of
%d in the name, so it would work anyway.

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Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
  Guus Sliepen <gu...@sl...>