[libvirt] Redefinition of struct in6_addr in <netinet/in.h> and <linux/in6.h>

Jike Song albcamus at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 03:55:41 UTC 2013


On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:59 AM, David Miller <davem at davemloft.net> wrote:

>
> When GLIBC doesn't provide it's own definition of some networking
> macros or interfaces that the kernel provides, people include the
> kernel header.
>

Recently I got a problem when copying a structure from kernel to userspace,
after debugging I found:

kernel:   include/linux/inet.h

#define INET6_ADDRSTRLEN        (48)

glibc:  /usr/include/netinet/in.h

#define INET6_ADDRSTRLEN 46


Any reason to differentiate them from each other?

-- 
Thanks,
Jike
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